La gran mentira de la muerte
20 december – 12 januari 2025
Part of Carmen and Carmen
La gran mentira de la muerte (The big lie of death) is a multichannel sound and film installation that explores poetic themes of the famous opera Carmen through the performative fields of flamenco and bullfighting.
The film explores how these forms – like the opera itself – evoke the spectacle of death, and implicate the spectator as a part of it. This work brings the ritual performance of death (real and imagined) into a conversation with cinema, which bears its own murderous traditions. The film features collaborations with performers Rocío Molina with José “El Oruco”, Yinka Esi Graves, Tosh Basco and the bullfighter Vanessa Montoya.
La gran mentira de la muerte is co-produced by TBA21, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Hartwig Art Foundation and the National Gallery of Victoria, with the collaboration with MACBA (Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona). Research and development commissioned by TBA21, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. Generously supported by CAAC, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo and Excelentísimo Ayuntamiento de Guillena (Sevilla).
Carmen and Carmen
From 20 December to 12 January, award-winning filmmaker and multimedia artist Wu Tsang presents Carmen and Carmen: a film installation, along with a program of films, talks and performances, that together explore the myth of Carmen in conversation with her collaborators.
A project by filmmaker and performance artist Wu Tsang
In Carmen and Carmen award winning filmmaker and performance artist Wu Tsang explores the myth of one of the most portrayed characters in Western culture. The story of Carmen, the title character from the iconic opera by Georges Bizet, has been told and retold over the past 150 years. Habanera, the aria in which she
In converation with Wu Tsang and artist and writer Sophia Al-Maria who together worked on the innovative Carmen opera that was presented by the Holland Festival last year.
Lawyer and feminist Pastora Filigrana will focus on the image of the gypsy women in the Carmen story and speak about Romani feminism.
