Theatrical poster series
Modern theatre performances increasingly refer to topics of memory, time and self-identification. Heroes of performances turn to their past in an attempt to reflect on their lives and elections.
Such performances explore how an individual is formed, how the past affects the present, and how the perception of time determines our sense of self. The heroes of these stories seek to rethink their lives, their decisions and their lost opportunities.
«Krapps Last Tape», York Theatre Royal
A play in which old writer Crapp auditions his 69th birthday with an old audio tape he made 30 years ago, reflecting on his life choices, losses and regrets. The Monospect explores the themes of memory, identity and inevitability of ageing, emphasizing that performance is not so much a memory as a confrontation with one’s own past. The hero is very good at transmitting this emotional rift between who you were, who you wanted to be, and who he became.
The image of a writer who is buried in his own memory through an old audio tape has been moved to a banner in the form of diagonal and vertical lines, and the photos do not form a single picture; they are like fragments of scattered memories, cut and moved over time.
«The Years», Harold Pinter Theatre
The play forms a collective portrait of people from the end of the Second World War to the beginning of the twenty-first century. The Spectac is a chronicle of a woman ' s life. Through a series of scenes, each of which reflects a certain stage in the life of a heroine, the production explores the themes of memory, identity and social change. Five actresses are involved in the production, each of whom embodies different social roles in the life of the main heroine.
As a child, years seem distant, slow, growing somewhere in the future. As they grow older, they begin to accelerate, becoming more tangible and pressing. At the same time, the image of heroin increases, symbolizing its maturity and transformation through life stages: childhood, youth, motherhood, maturity.
The horizontal version of the poster continues the time metaphor, visualizes life phase change, the theme of maturity, cycling. The growing name sounds like steps: first you grow up, you try to grow up like you’re climbing a pedestal. This ladder is a symbol of growing up and losing, moving up and returning to the roots.
In performances, the subject of human nature is revealed through a study of the delicate, delicate borderline between control and its loss, between rational and instinctive. It’s a reflection on what we call human, and what we try to hide — our animal, our primordial beginning.
«Gods and Dogs», Staatsballett Berlin
Work tells about the invisible line between normality and madness, between human and animal, light and darkness, control, and loss of it. The name hints at the dual nature of man: divine and instinctive. Dancers do not play a specific role, but represent archetypic states — a person at the border between a spiritual and an animal.
The basic question is: at what point does a human awaken an animal, and does it become stronger than the human being itself? In the posters, the traditional perception is deliberately broken: the opposite of the GODS and DOGS are highlighted and contrasted with the way in which they highlight the internal fracture.
«Falling into Shadow», NDT 2
The vision explores aspects of the boundaries between body and shadow, control and loss, «human» and «animal». It’s called «Falling into Shadow,» not about the darkness as such, but about the transition: when you’re still in balance, but you already feel that it’s broken. The body, like consciousness, is beginning to lose control.
Subsequently, of three separate posters, each recording the moment of flight — from loss of balance to free fall — one long vertical poster was created. It combines these phases into continuous motion, turning the distributed fragments into a single visual drop gesture.
The name already contains a sense of falling, losing support, slipping into the space where the borders are disappearing. The patch visually continues this metaphor: the body lacks details, it flies down, its support slips away. Not in the dark, but in the shadows, where clarity disappears and something else appears.
