PLASTIC ORCHID FACTORY’s entre chien et loup

Between dog and wolf is an expression from old French commonly used to describe a time of day when the light is so dim you can’t distinguish a dog from a wolf. Twilight, dawn, dusk. The gloaming.

In this new solo work, Gnam embodies multiple layers of the “dog and wolf” expression to expose his process of making a solo during a pandemic.

In that time between the dog and the wolf, we might feel deceived by our eyes, caught somewhere between comfort and fear, between what is real and unreal. It is a time of transformation, “the hour in which every being becomes their own shadow, and thus something other than themselves. The hour of metamorphoses, when people half hope, half fear that a dog will become a wolf.” (Barbara Bray, from the translation of Jean Genet’s Prisoner of Love).

The work develops through cosplay and child-like inquisitiveness, reaching into the thresholds of the familiar and unfamiliar, of safety and threat, of human nature turning wild and uneasiness replacing certainty.

Learn more about Plastic Orchid Factory:  https://plasticorchidfactory.ca/

Funding provided by Heritage Canada, Canada Council for the Arts, City of Nanaimo, Province of BC/BC Arts Council, and the Dance West Network