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2014

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2023

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Model, Don Giovanni

This is a Model. It is dated 2014. Its medium is cardstock, foam core, mdf, and led, recreated for exhibition; staged 2014, royal opera house, london, uk . It is a part of the department.


“The first question any team asks when adventuring into the morality myth of Don Giovanni is: how will we represent hell? Director Kasper Holten and I determined that, if the ultimate expression of life is liberty, then hell is the closing of doors and corridors and the end of choice. We materialized the long list of Giovanni’s lovers into an often overcrowded, revolving, multistory structure full of stairs and corridors. This model was an early exploration of labyrinthine stair forms.”

It is credited Courtesy of Es Devlin.

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition An Atlas of Es Devlin.

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