Video -performance “5 O'Clock Shadowshow: The Hare, the Others and Me”
mp3 - 10minutes - 2025
On the occasion of the opening of Ladies First, Carina Gosselé presented “5 O'Clock Shadowshow: The Hare, the Others and Me” .
This performance is situated at the intersection of tradition and identity, asking how social and cultural programming shapes us and how we can respond to it. It invites the audience to connect with hybrid beings and reflect on themes of transformation.
Two paintings, Vanity and Arrogance, function as side panels of a triptych and serve as guardians of the installation. A life-size, mythical, hybrid ragdoll moves and dances with a White Lady, a supernatural figure rooted in European folklore.
The performance unfolds in a ritual progression: applying make-up and transforming into the White Lady. This work is both a visual and experiential meditation on the “others and me”, an investigation into selfhood, myth and connection.
With a soundscape by Timo Carlier.