ELLINOR ÅSLUND
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Eterno amor
2023. Performance and fountain
Performance 16th june 2023 at the Chapel of The School of Conceptual and Contextual Practices at Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademis Billedkunstskoler, during Rundgang.
The aria is taken from Donizettis L'elisir d'Amore, where a woman repeatadely sings to a man: Il mio rigor dimentica, ti giuro eterno amor, in translation: Forgive my former cruelties, I promise you eternal love. The repetition and extatic coloratura of the opera makes the singer more and more turning away from the one she is singing to and into herself, in an exploration of the dimensions of the feeling and rethorical beauty. It becomes a comment on womans place in patriarchy, and in opera, about hysteria and the turning inwards, away from society.