“Gorgeous people die too”
(Hanna Wilke)
A diptych is a work of art consisting of two separate parts that, when combined, form a unified work of art. These parts can be attached or displayed side by side.
The two parts of Diptyk
1. En god död – A good death
2. Jag vill se oss dansa och städa – I want to see us dancing and cleaning
How is death depicted in Western art? What is a good death?
Director Minna Lund's Diptyk looks at the Western culture of death. Set in a single apartment, the two-part performance is an intimate and banal montage about a good death and what happens afterwards.
The work explores the social and spatial choreographies of a good death in Western society. Diptyk places itself in a continuum of artworks about death, raising questions about the medicalisation of death, communion, care, and our ability to deal with death.
“At home we didn’t believe in God. Hanna wasn’t going to a better place after this. Everything was here and now. Everything was in this apartment. There were two rooms. A kitchen and a bedroom. A narrow hallway dividing and framing the space. There was a bedroom window, from which the sunlight came through onto Hanna's bed. The rest of Hanna’s life lasted three months, starting on the 10th of September 2018.”
Read more: https://www.viirus.fi/en/shows/diptyk
Teater Viirus • Välimerenkatu 14, 00220 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
