PLASTIC ORCHID FACTORY’s entre chien et loup

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Saturday, May 25th, 2024
7:30 PM to 8:30 PM

BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF IS AN EXPRESSION FROM OLD FRENCH COMMONLY USED TO DESCRIBE A TIME OF DAY WHEN THE LIGHT IS SO DIM YOU CAN’T DISTINGUISH A DOG FROM A WOLF. TWILIGHT, DAWN, DUSK. THE GLOAMING.

In this new solo work, Gnam embodies multiple layers of the “dog and wolf” expression to expose his process of making a solo during a pandemic.

In that time between the dog and the wolf, we might feel deceived by our eyes, caught somewhere between comfort and fear, between what is real and unreal. It is a time of transformation, “the hour in which every being becomes their own shadow, and thus something other than themselves. The hour of metamorphoses, when people half hope, half fear that a dog will become a wolf.” (Barbara Bray, from the translation of Jean Genet’s Prisoner of Love).

The work develops through cosplay and child-like inquisitiveness, reaching into the thresholds of the familiar and unfamiliar, of safety and threat, of human nature turning wild and uneasiness replacing certainty.

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