Prime Care

In the woods two figures are wrapped from shoulder to waist in a 130-metre-long piece of coloured cloth around a tree. This tree held them upright. So they could stand together through time. Above all, because it took care of them without any longing or expectation. Eventually, the two figures leave, clearing a path that leads them back to the beginning, each in a different form, relieved of a dozen metres of cloth. In this process of unwinding, the audience itself becomes embedded.

One takes up the challenge by singing. As the other character recites ‘I like to be a tree’, the singer interjects several times with a gentle melody.

Curated by the collective PEP-IN-GEN

Performed with Geertje van Duijnhoven, mezzo soprano

Produced with the support of Den Boom, Lier

Photography by Hilde Vets and Fanny Zaman

With thanks to Astrid Slingerland, Paul Anckaerts, Fanny Zaman, Katie Verstockt, Jos De Gruyter, Hilde Van Hove and Erlinde Peeters