The concept is based on poems by Ingeborg Bachmann, like a diary describing the inner monologue of a woman who experiences spaces, places and landscapes. It is the diary of a woman who, in a delirium, lives through an imaginary odyssey, loses herself, and in which nothing seems real anymore, yet nothing seems impossible anymore.
»The time devours me. Day after day it engraves its work into my skin, where the mirror throws its image back to me. With its teeth, it tirelessly digs a grave into the furthest part of my mind and triumphs over the void. It dismantles me. Fragmented, I try to put the missing and scattered parts of myself back together. Fear and loneliness nestle in the emptiness left behind my ruins. I stayed behind, with my eyes on my back, overtaken by the time, I run after it and myself. I struggle with the broken pieces – dispersed in the wind of time.« (Ingeborg Bachmann)
The cie. toula limnaios is funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. The production was supported in 1997 by the Commission de la Communauté française de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale and the SACD, Ministère de la Culture de la Communauté française de Belgique. A co-production with the Akademie der Künste Berlin, Künstlerhof Buch, Studio l’l Brussels, and Studio ICEM Institut Essen.