Spiraling (2021), 7:00, HD video. Defares Collection
Lakhrissi has developed Spiraling (2021), a new film co-produced in collaboration with the Shedhalle Zurich. Inspired by Félix González-Torres’s iconic work “Untitled” (Go-Go Dancing Platform) from 1991 and filmed in a gallery of the Haus der Kunst, Spiraling counters the building’s authoritarian architecture with the powerful metaphor of the spiral. The gyrating movements of dancer Mila Furie, a queer rights activist and night performer, overlap with Lakhrissi’s voice poetically recounting a coming-of-age story. The film reads like a seduction that uses poetry, eroticism, and pop culture to invert the prevailing controlling gaze and power relations. (Haus der Kunst, Echoes)
Performance and choreography by Mila Furie
Music by Fatma Pneumonia
Cinematography by Mateausz Smolka
Executive production by Roman Toulany
Edited by Roman Toulany and Mateausz Smolka
Comissioned and produced by Haus der Kunst
in collaboration with Shedhalle
Installation views, EXTRA WORLDING, Shedhalle, Zurich (CH), 2021.
