Private collection

Claude Bardouil's self-guided tour of a private collection of ghosts and stage ghosts.

Claude Bardouil's ghostly labyrinth is home to characters emblematic of French culture, little known to the Polish public, such as Marguerite Duras — writer and screenwriter nicknamed monstre sacré (holy monster), author of the autobiographical novel The Lover, honoured in 1984 with the Goncourt Prize, and Chantal Akerman — Belgian film director Jeanne Dielman, Boulevard Handlowy, 1080, Brussels, which in 2022 ranked first in the prestigious poll of the best films of all time published by British Film Institute (BFI). They are joined by actress Catherine Deneuve, American artist Mike Kelley, porn star Savannah and iconic punk rock era characters Iggy Pop, Nancy Spungen and Sid Vicious. It is the intersection of intimacy with the discourse of pop culture, glam and obscene, privacy with the created image, characteristic of Bardouila's theater.

Claude Bardouil leads an author's tour of a private collection of ghosts and stage ghosts. In the biographies of artists, he finds analogies to personal experience, such as the suicide death of his brother, he looks for the sources of his obsessive fascination with the representation of violence against women or incestuous love. This is a story about a boy who grew up in the splendor of rock stars and cultural icons, about death and traumas that are reflected in art.

The private collection is a meeting of two dancers and choreographers from different generations: Bardouil and Grudziński, as well as the clash of two creative practices of choreographic and dramatic actresses from the ensemble of the Nowy Teatr Małgorzata Hajewska-Krzysztofik, Ewelina Pankowska and Magdalena Popławska.

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