MONSTER

«I'm not a monster, I'm a mother.» (...) «You're not a monster,» I said. But I lied. What I really wanted to say was that a monster is not such a terrible thing to be. (...) To be a monster is to be a hybrid signal, a lighthouse: both shelter and warning at once." (from Ocean Vuong, «On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous»)

Here, an uncanny collective meanders through a boundless landscape of symbols. The unconscious serves as its means of transport, historical and instinctive fears as vanishing points.

How is one's worldview formed in childhood, and how do we find ourselves within it again? The mother figure is illuminated as both a concrete and symbolic point of reference for these questions. She represents the human desire for security and existence, which haunts us in the form of ghosts, phantoms, and monsters. Through language horror, an uncanny placenta, and dreamlike movement, the new work by the artist trio Recke Lehmann/Froelicher explores the connections between universal subject psychology and individual self-realization on a socio-political level.

Anta Helena Recke, Maxi Menja Lehmann, and Anna Froelicher shape space, time, and language into sensual yet political tableaux on stage. With their previous collaborative work, «The Humiliations of Humanity», they already attracted significant attention through their detailed gaze at seemingly universal themes and stories.

In MONSTER, the trio now explores a relationship structure that has occupied all of us since birth.