OUR CARNAL HEARTS
This fairy comes round your house. You, she says, are in luck. Ask for anything you want. Anything in the world and I’ll give it to you. But whatever you ask for, your neighbor gets the same thing,...
Deborah Pearson revives her first ever solo piece, Like You Were Before, a show from five years ago about leaving Canada five years before that. Using a video she took in October of 2005, she attempts to reinsert herself into the frame, and into this old show, standing in a hall of mirrors of five year intervals. This is a show about “Doing it like it used to be done” and moving forward, backwards.
“…a beautiful, accomplished, bittersweet and philosophical work on love, loss and memory.” The List
“An unmissable homespun glance into how we got here, even if we don’t quite know where we’re going.” The Herald