Down Here All the Lilacs Die

“Down Here All the Lilacs Die”
(It seems to me I could stop here)
Part of the program of the “Etudes and Friends” Festival, second edition, realized with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture and the Etude Foundation.

The project is realized with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture and the Etude Foundation. Special thanks to Etude Gallery and Elisaveta Marinova.

“Ideas are the heirs of sorrow; when sorrow becomes an idea, it no longer has the power to wound the heart.” Marcel Proust

“I could tell you what I have explored if I hadn’t read Marcel Proust and hadn’t been obsessed with the music of Richard Wagner and Leonard Cohen. Now I feel so insecure in my dancing that my insecurity belongs to another world. I could tell you what I have explored if I knew. But since all my assumptions can be challenged, I won’t burden you with explanations of whether ‘the object returns from a long journey through the narrow frame of a half-open door, infinitely distant, in a completely different color, velvety, with the glow of some intervention of light, or appears, dances, but belongs to another world.’ I would like to speak about love, if I knew and could describe it. I would like to know more about death, which often torments us because of its uncertainty to happen in the ideal way for us. I won’t be able to tell you what sorrow is for me, since I have abandoned it to the point that it no longer appears before my eyes, and I do not allow it to return for long. I could also say what art is for me, although it is not modest to express my judgment about any work.” Galina Borisova