Eszter Salamon

Strange creatures, made of sea debris, survive in symbiosis, travelling from island to island, following the sun. In a vast forest, another community worships trees, dressing in remnants of the human world. Their bodies merge with moss and humus.

Landscaping is a video installation for multiple screens. It saw its world premiere during the Biennale de la danse de Lyon in 2025, was shown at IRCAM with the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and during the Bergen International Festival it will be featured at Permanenten, Kode Bergen Art Museum.

The creatures in Landscaping are performed by Carte Blanche dancers, filmed in locations around Bergen. The post-apocalyptic mood is augmented by Carmen Villains atmospheric music.

Behind the work is artist, researcher, choreographer and performer Eszter Salamon.

Visitor information: The installation lasts 52 minutes, presented as a loop.

About the artist

Eszter Salamon is currently working on her artistic doctoral degree at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO). In 2019, she was awarded the Evens Foundation Prize, and in 2020 she was one of the winners of La vie bonne, a project call by CNAP and AWARE (Archive of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions).

In 2023, she received the prestigious Hedda Award in the category of Best Scenography and Costume Design for the costumes for Monument 0.10: The Living Monument in collaboration with Carte Blanche.

Her works use choreography as a means of navigating between various media such as sound, text, voice, image, bodily movement, and action. The works evolve through different formats and aesthetic expressions, methodologies, and poetics, activating a wide range of modes of expression. Since 2001, she has devoted herself to creating solo works and group performances presented at theatres and festivals worldwide, and she is frequently invited to contribute to museum contexts. In 2014, she initiated a series of works that explore both the concept of the monument and a practice of speculating on and rewriting history.

Medvirkende

- Eszter Salamon, director, choreography, cotumes
- Folk Film v/Anita Norfolk, Studio ES v/Elodie Perrin, producers
- Mattias Pollak, film photography
- João Carvalho, assistant director
- Carmen Villain, original music
- Alexandra Láng, editing
- Laura Garnier, costume assistant
- IRCAM v/Augustin Muller, computer music design
- IRCAM v/Clément Cerles, sound diffusion

Carte Blanche – The Norwegian National Company of Contemporary Dance w/Adrian Bartczak, Aslak Aune Nygård, Brecht Bovijn, Caroline Eckly, Dawid Lorenc, Gaspard Schmitt, Ihsaan de Banya, Irene Vesterhus Theisen, Mai Lisa Guinoo, Manon Campion, Nadege Kubwayo, Naomi Schouten, Noam Eidelman Shatil, Ole Martin Meland, dancers

Annabelle Bonnery, artistic director

Simon Eidesvik, junior producer

A co-production between

Festspillene i Bergen, Kode, Carte Blanche, Folk Film, Studio ES, in collaboration with La Biennale de la dance de Lyon, Centre Pompidou ICRAM, Paris