COME AND GO, HOME


LUCCA LUTZKY
DANIIL KOTLIAR



ENG         FRN



Text: Sioban O'leary

A filmed interpretation of Samuel Beckett’s ‘Come and Go’ by Lucca Lutzky With a projection of ‘Home’ by Daniil Kotliar

Three women sit on a bench in an austere world. An eerie calm befalls them. Hand-in-hand, they exist beyond time, weary in the face of uncertainty. 

The absurd minimalism of Samuel Beckett’s 1965 micro-drama ‘Come and Go’ is revisited by director Lucca Lutzky as a parable of our times. Whereas Beckett’s original play staged three older women in a state of reminiscence, Lutzky’s filmed interpretation inverts the script. The future becomes the only place of reference. Ambiguity imbues its arrival and form. Entering and exiting in concentric circles, the girls operate in a changeless world, where incessant secrecy is intertwined with the fear of not knowing.

Daniil Kotliar’s series of images ‘Home’ was captured using a pinhole camera in Kyiv in 2019. Like memory, pinhole images contort and warp, blur and disappear. Derelict buildings and sparse landscapes mark an ongoing search for belonging in a defaced world, where destruction is seen as a place of potential and renewal. 

Projected facing the film, ‘Home’ becomes the landscape of Lutzky’s nun-like characters, who – like the three witches in Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ – “look not like th’inhabitants o’ th’ earth, and yet are on’t”. Set against the prevailing uncertainty, the two pieces accompany the difficulty that comes with making sense of our times, echoing a meditation on the unpredictable throes of youth.

Lucca Lutzky was born in 1998 in Southern Brazil, and lives and works between Paris and London. Primarily focusing on cinema, his practice extends to video and performance art.

Daniil Kotliar was born in 1999 in Ukraine, and lives and works in Paris. He is a self-taught photographer, creating projects that explore themes of memory, family and cultural history.