Miroirs du réel

Anna Viebrock is an artist who invents "spaces to act". She creates them by taking her inspiration from what she perceives of the real, the architecture of cities she travels through, objects that she notices, various atmospheres that permeate her in her never-ending strolls. She first builds models with absolute precision in setting up the proportions, in the choice of materials and colours, in the incorporation of accessories. By presenting them, accompanied by her notebooks and working notes, especially those that preceded the creation of Papperlapapp, Anne Viebrock proposes that we totally follow her artistic approach. We understand how she shifts the real off-centre, how she blends elements of our daily life that would ordinarily never meet. These miniatures are also the expression of the humour that permeates the work of this visual artist of the theatre space. By mixing the concrete and the abstract, by being inside and outside the framework of the traditional stage, she makes the places denser, makes them poetic and marvellous, allowing herself to create doors that are four meters high and putting street lamps in the middle of living rooms and offices. Her enclosed places - community centres, restaurants, interiors of homes, aircraft cabins - are for the directors with whom she works, and in particular Christoph Marthaler, fascinating spaces that give them all the freedom to invent. In disco?vering nearly 30 models, 30 "working models", but also life-size set elements, we understand how the performance space is created and we swing, with Anna Viebrock to the other side of the mirror. There, where dreams take shape before enormously enlarging and becoming fascinating theatre places.

conception Anna Viebrock
in collaboration with Frieda Schneider

avec l'aide du Deutsches Theatermuseum et de la Theaterakademie August Everding (Munich)