Made from discarded theater silk-curtains, re-colored black while letting its past stitchings and patterns still shine through. The hole in the middle is cut out and possible to step through. The title and work draws inspiration from the book Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carrol (1871).

I am  drawn to re-use and mis-use the tools from the theatre - off stage. The curtain has historically been used within the playhouses as a division between audience (reality) and the stage (fiction). Curtains are
often also used for more practical reasons: making the sound environment less brute, controlling the light and making hiding spaces for props and actors. The curtains I worked with here are about three decades old and have an immaterial archive of their own that I
wanted to display by placing it in a setting where you can view it from both sides in a day-light setting.

The curtain was also part of the play “The Opening Night” directed by the artist Iris Smeds 2023 at The Art Academy. We were asked to use a work of our own and create a script/life around it, all our parts were then assembled
and became material for the play that Iris wrote. I used the curtain as a point of departure and wrote it a monologue that I shared from the stage wrapped around it.

CREDITS LilaRo Skrädderikompani & Riksteatern