Chimera Power and the Seven Women in Heaven
Performance: 25 minutes with Frode Haltli
Photographer: Kristine Jakobsen
Costume: Mich Dulce
The performance leads the audience from Christiania Square into the exhibition spaces at Oslo Kunstforening, where history, rituals and hybrid bodies meet. Through music, movement and text, seven female figures from the building’s 17th-century plaster ceiling are brought to life, each of them carrying a virtue: temperance, strength, wisdom, justice, love, hope and faith. In collaboration with accordionist Frode Haltli, the performance moves between folk tunes and early baroque music and ends as a collective purification of the body and of history.
Text by Elisabeth Byre, former director of Oslo Kunstforening.