PROJECT 1 / actor & sculpture / OSUM , Matej Filipčič
Miniature in White
Blaž Lukan, Delo
What is the power of white? Does one colourless
background fade all the differences so that the question of sin and guilt
becomes pointless? Or does white enhance the two even more and the one
who is sinful and guilty is so utterly? Perhaps there is a third option
- white as the (non)colour of nostalgia in the end covers all, the sinful
and the innocent, with the same veil of emotive tranquillity and remembrance...
"Suspicion" - the show by director, set and costume designer
Matej Filipčič, and author of the script (a play miniature in fact), playwright
Irena Staudohar - makes use of the whiteness of the walls in the Slovenian
Contemporary Art Museum, while a "house painter" is applying
an extra layer of white just before the show starts. A white rug is laid
out on the floor and both women in the show are dressed in white; only
the man is black.
The viewer is drawn by the serene concentration of the performers, Jette
Vejrup Ostan, Iva Zupančič and Akira Hasegawa, by their unpretentious
acting with thought-out balance between psychology and stylisation. Their
performace is as mature or naive as needed, contemplative or erotic, sincere
or elusive, but always supple and sensitive, nostalgic and on the verge
of oblivion, as if painted in white on white.
