Sleep /wi/th a/n ey/e o/pe/n and/ you/ will/ see /your/self (2022)
Performance. 30'
Unbleached Canvas Roll 600x160.
Theatre van Deyssel, Amsterdam 2022.
' With the lecture performance Sleep /wi/th a/n ey/e o/pe/n and/ you/ will/ see /your/self, Betina
Abi Habib stages rectifications of Arthur Rimbaud’s poem “The sleeper in the valley”
(French: “Le dormeur du val”). Remembering how she had to analyze, memorize and recite this poem in primary school, Abi Habib dissects its structure, lexicon, and rhyme to reconstruct a series of imagery that ‘she sees herself in.’ With this work, Abi Habib continues to explore the dynamic relationship between language and affect, translation and interpretation, memory, and the malleability of experience, through the life of a poem and the way it grew on and with her.'
(French: “Le dormeur du val”). Remembering how she had to analyze, memorize and recite this poem in primary school, Abi Habib dissects its structure, lexicon, and rhyme to reconstruct a series of imagery that ‘she sees herself in.’ With this work, Abi Habib continues to explore the dynamic relationship between language and affect, translation and interpretation, memory, and the malleability of experience, through the life of a poem and the way it grew on and with her.'
