SØREN EVINSON

Smooth, shiny and seamless, Just Desire is like the finishing touches on the most inspiring consumer goods of our time. Like a high-end phone, a luxury perfume or the fastest car in the world – the Tesla Roadster – the performance offers itself as the object of our desire. The space is littered with golden chains from which hang multiple shiny garments: the dead carcasses of a boutique where an intimate portrait unravels in a turmoil of consumption of objects, others and self.

The fluid and relentless interaction between objects and performer creates a landscape that draws from mainstream imaginaries surrounding evil, identity, consumerism, sex, love and death but gradually seeps into places that are unfathomable. In this limitless cascade of action, singing and words, the boundaries between subject and collective desire begin to destabilise.

Søren Evinson’s work lives in the intersections of performance, theatre and dance. By sliding through these categories, he generates new fantasies on what can be conceived as spectacular, understanding the spectacular in the context of consumer society and the idealisation of contemporary culture. He investigates through body, word, song and objects, and elaborates motifs made out of poses, gestures, vocalisations and language, by which he builds and thinks choreographically. He works on presence, gesture and action as form, word, speech and discourse as form, gaze, audience and entertainment as form, with the intention of attending to the exhibiting of the body to further construct narratives that through their sequentiality appear to be sensitive to the logos but that disrupt its logics within their own frames of expression.

“Evinson’s explosion onto the scene is one of the most powerful things we’ve seen in a long time. ‘A Nation is Born in Me’ is more like a train collision between performer and audience than an encounter. The piece contains a healthy dose of honesty on the part of the artist that is hard to find…. Evinson is not of this world. The fullness of the piece is linked to the nature of the theatrical act itself”. Oriol Puig Taulé. Núvol

Concept, direction and texts Søren Evinson / Original Music TRIIM & Daniel Papell / Dramaturgy Florine Lindner / Lighting design Julia Bauer / Costume design and tailor Samara Scott
Production Antic Teatre Barcelona and Le Phenix Valencienne (França) / With the support Graner fàbrica de crteació, SALMON Festival, Espace Pasolini (França) Tenerife Lav and Theaterhaus Mitte Berlin

Artist associated with the Mercat de les Flors in the 2024-25 season

The Banc Sabadell FBS Foundation collaborates with the program of associated and resident artists of the Mercat de les Flors.