Galatea, performance 5 sept + tentoonstelling 6 sept
vr 05 sep
|Amsterdam
Galatea is a performance and art installation about the Greek myth of Pygmalion, told from the perspective of Galatea — the woman-statue sculpted and brought to life solely to fulfill a man’s ideal.
Tijd en locatie
05 sep 2025, 19:00 – 21:00
Amsterdam, Bickersgracht 10, 1013 LE Amsterdam, Nederland
Over het evenement
Galatea
Four musicians and a ceramic artist — Klaudia Kazmierczak (ceramics), Vera Morais (voice), Katerina Orfanoudaki (harpsichord), Maria Kritsotaki (voice), and Nicky Kokkoli (saxophone) — explore different perspectives on this story, both through Galatea’s eyes and through music, clay, and stone.
The materiality of sound and the sonic qualities of the sculptures are merged to create a parallel world — one in which questions arise about free will, about being an object versus being a subject, and ultimately, about womanhood:
How does it feel to be built for a man’s ideal?
How does it feel to be a stone?
How does it feel to be human?