Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Opera Ballet Vlaanderen Exhibition ( Modest Mussorgskys Pictures at an Exhibition), 2016

Exhibition, to Modest Mussorgsky s Pictures at an Exhibition in the famous orchestration by Ravel, is a polemic of sorts, as the work is rarely visualised as a ballet. From the beginning, it was intended as an in memoriam for the painter Viktor Hartmann, full of thoughts of death and with an elegiac mood. Dreamlike scenes mingle with the desire to recapture an elusive past.