Black Box teater Masks (BBt Being)

Black Box teater Masks (BBt Being) was an exhibition of photographs that traced stories mediated by the material environment of Black Box teater. Images of marks that have been created by people working in the building, images that are signs of theater production, images of forgotten and remembered events, images of accidental and intentional actions, images of intimate interactions and collective care.

In the exhibition each image derives from one photo which is doubled, mirrored, and separated into its lightest and darkest colours. Oredsson creates images, with two surfaces which mirror each other, or two faces, referencing the ancient form of the comedy and tragedy masks, bound to the history of theatre. The mask simultaneously reveals and conceals its carrier, as reality and fiction. One can imagine the mask as the first scenographic object, existing through relation to the face it describes. A mask is one symbiotic object, a meeting between two surfaces, carrying visible and invisible qualities of the being it is both part of and separate from.

Funded by Arts Council Norway

Extra credits / Thanks to: Jean Vincent Kerebel, Anne-Cécile Sibué-Birkeland, Serge von Arx, Ingri Fiksdal and everyone who has been and is a part of Black Box teater.

SOURCE:

Black Box teater’s archive, 2025