Tania Candiani

El Principio, el paréntesis y el fin, el telón (The beginning, the parenthesis, and the end, the curtain) is a video and an installation that consist in a set of theater curtains, made in a way that looks like patterns or sketches for curtains, with the thread, and the systems of ropes visible.

This scenario has four curtains which are open to an empty stage. It is presented next to a video divided into three chapters: in the first, images of static curtains appear with a text that refers to curtains as landscapes of configurations replete with geographical features; in the second the curtains swing, shake and open to reveal the scenes, and the action potential for an audience ready to devour the narratives that could spring from it, and the script come from titles of fables; the third part represents the end of the show when the curtains are closed, and the lights are lit.