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The enclosed garden
Athens Queer Performance Festival
Athens 2019
Concept: Kallia Kefala
Performers:
Kallia Kefala
Kim Bode
Nefeli Gioti
Stouli Leporidae
Sound editing: Kim Bode
Movement Consaltant: Nefeli Gioti
Duration: 20'
Footnotes
The Enclosed Garden's aim is the creation of a visual narration around femininity and sexuality, using as raw material christian iconography. It investigates the way sexuality is concealed or described as an allegory in the christian faith. To do so, the idea of hortus conclusus (enclosed garden) is activated. Which, in relation to Virgin Mary, pervades the art in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Hortus conclusus identifies Virgin Mary with a hermetically sealed and at the same time orgiastic garden. This symbolism and its contradictions are used to place the focus on desire, seen from a queer perspective.
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