Stronger than memory and weaker than dewdrops

Opening: Friday, 24.9.2021, 18:00 – 21:00
19:00: Guided tour in the presence of the artists
18:00 – 20:00: children's activities

Opening under the CovidCheck regime

Stronger than memory and weaker than dewdrops, a multimedia exhibition by Karolina Markiewicz and Pascal Piron, is based on and merges with contemporary poetry to express current affairs in the world, but also its history and myths. Myths and abstraction which here represent a parallel world through which we can explain even the most impactful stories and facts to ourselves. A world in which we feel and which perhaps allows us to be part of a human community.

featuring:

Emanuele Sinisi, scenographic consultant
Khalid Abubakar, actor
Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir, singer
ykasppkmkm, collective
Elisabet Johannesdottir, voice

+ Green Ahmed, Rama Alhussein, Mariam Diallo Ezzaki, Sufyan Hashim, Nasrall Kardani, Christina Khoury, Pedro Moisès, Armend Shkodra, Yunus Yusuf

Learn more: https://spark.adobe.com/page/Im1CBS24mGLBD/

Auxiliary program on the ground floor

The Fantastic
25.9 - 30.1.22
a film by Maija Blåfield
30', Finland, 2020 (continuous)

Mémoire coloniale luxembourgeoise
10.11 - 3.1.2022
exhbition by Richtung22

If I Were Another
By Mahmoud Darwish
Translated by Fady Joudah

If I were another on the road, I would not have looked
back, I would have said what one traveler said
to another: Stranger! awaken
the guitar more! Delay our tomorrow so our road
may extend and space may widen for us, and we may get rescued
from our story together: you are so much yourself ... and I am
so much other than myself right here before you!

If I were another I would have belonged to the road,
neither you nor I would return. Awaken the guitar
and we might sense the unknown and the route that tempts
the traveler to test gravity. I am only
my steps, and you are both my compass and my chasm.
If I were another on the road, I would have
hidden my emotions in the suitcase, so my poem
would be of water, diaphanous, white,
abstract, and lightweight ... stronger than memory,
and weaker than dewdrops, and I would have said:
My identity is this expanse!

If I were another on the road, I would have said
to the guitar: Teach me an extra string!
Because the house is farther, and the road to it prettier—
that’s what my new song would say. Whenever
the road lengthens the meaning renews, and I become two
on this road: I ... and another!

Mahmoud Darwish, "If I Were Another" from The Butterfly's Burden. Copyright © 2008 by Mahmoud Darwish, English translation by Fady Joudah. Reprinted by permission of Copper Canyon Press. www.coppercanyonpress.org
Source: The Butterfly's Burden (Copper Canyon Press, 2007)