Sometimes, there is something deep inside of us that simply refuses to sit silent or immobile, or will not bear the weight of history or the world’s heavy fate... Some mornings, we get up with an intense desire for lightness, for anything but reality, for the sky. A desire to spread our wings that is always accompanied by the vertigo of hopeful expectation.
In this 2023 edition in particular, the shows
explore this desire with a maturity that illustrates
that the artists, in the momentum, retain
an awareness of a certain complexity, or a
disorder... It is this ‘something’ that brings these
artists here. They want us to share in all this
energy and beauty.
Their names will no doubt be familiar to you because in recent years, almost all of them have attended the Festival at some point. It’s up to us to rediscover them, as they reinvent themselves show after show.
Patrick Bonté
General and artistic direction
Picture (c) Max Slobodda