Sky Burial
@ Mat Collishaw
meditations on death and nature
‘The film is a work of baroque sensibility, both shockingly beautiful and liberating, injecting Fauré’s masterpiece with a contemporary grittiness’
Artmuse London
Mat Collishaw's haunting video projection juxtaposes the Tibetan death rite of ‘sky burials’ and a dystopian environment set in an inner-city tower block with a live performance of Fauré’s Requiem, creating a powerful and thought-provoking meditation on our relationships with both nature and death.
Collishaw is one of the key figures of the Young British Artists (YBA) movement that emerged in the 1980s and has gone on to international acclaim.
The world premiere was given at Baden-Baden in 2021, with further performances at De Singel, Antwerp, with Brussels Philharmonic and Vlaams Radio Choir, November 2021; Moscow, February 2022; Tasmania, March 2023; Kristiansand, May 2023, and at London's Barbican Centre in November 2023. It is a production by Pont Neuf Performing Fine Arts, co-produced by Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, erda–Insula Orchestra and Choir, Paris, and deSingel, Antwerp.
‘My intention is to present a large video projection that echoes the themes evoked in the music and resonates with broader issues and concerns in the contemporary world’
