'All that exists is just and unjust and equally justified in both” , Nietzsche.
Clytemnestra was as a starting point for my research on the darkest, demonic
manifestation of a woman's nature. She can both- give life and take it away.
She is a violent beauty. Woman driven at her extremes, where beneath the
conventionally attractive facade something much more primal lives. Darkness
under the cover of beauty. Death of her child sets the stage for the retaliation
and extreme anxiety attached to sexuality- subtle, relentless and unforgiving.
My interest was to explore issues of trauma, loss and madness set against wild
backdrop of emotional and sexual excess. The area where the familiar and
known turns into the strange and uncanny, where the pious prayer becomes
a witches Sabbath.
My interest also was in questioning historically set traditional social constructions
of gender. Male characters largely represent the brutality of the world:
reason, authority and domination, while women are often embodiment of
sacrifice, suffering and abnegation. The patriarchal authority is what she
rebels. It is visceral, vicious battle of the sexes, where she has mark of something
supernatural, the Mother Earth and the Mother Night.
