Stronger than memory and weaker than dewdrops

Vernissage : vendredi, 24.9.2021, 18 h 00 – 21 h 00
19 h 00 : visite guidée en présence des artistes
18 h 00 – 20 h 00 : activités pour enfants

Événement sous le régime du CovidCheck

Stronger than memory and weaker than dewdrops est une exposition multimédia de Karolina Markiewicz et Pascal Piron. Elle se construit autour de la poésie contemporaine pour exprimer l’actualité du monde mais aussi son histoire, sa mémoire et ses mythes. Les mythes et les abstractions représentent ici un monde parallèle, presque enfantin, à travers lequel il est possible d’expliquer les histoires et les faits, même les plus marquants, même les plus durs.

Il s’agit d’un monde violent, fragile et aimant à la fois qui s’exprime à travers ses histoires et ses visions. Un monde qui permet, peut-être, de rester alerte avec une communauté humaine embarquée. 

Avec:

Emanuele Sinisi, regard scénographique
Khalid Abubakar, acteur
Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir, chanteuse
ykasppkmkm, collectif
Elisabet Johannesdottir, voix 

+ Green Ahmed, Rama Alhussein, Mariam Diallo Ezzaki, 

Sufyan Hashim, Nasrall Kardani, Christina Khoury, Pedro Moisès, 

Armend Shkodra, Yunus Yusuf

En savoir plus : https://spark.adobe.com/page/Im1CBS24mGLBD/

Programme auxiliaire au rez-de-chaussée

The Fantastic
25.9 – 30.1.22
un film de Maija Blåfield
30', Finlande, 2020 (en continu)

Mémoire coloniale luxembourgeoise
10.11 – 3.1.22
exposition de 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)