I See a Face. Do You See a Face.

The opera premieres this season will be accompanied by works by the artist Flaka Haliti. The ten pictures from her series I See a Face. Do You See a Face. play with our perception and the question of how we share this perception with others, issues that are very familiar to us as an audience that jointly experiences music and theater. Our personal perception is here linked to others that we try to capture in words. Flaka Haliti said the following about this artwork created in 2014: “Sharing my perspective is sometimes impossible because we all have our own perspective of looking at things. Clouds are a very good example because they change their shape every second. When you are sitting next to another person and try to explain which face, animal or whatever you see in a cloud, it is almost impossible that the other person is seeing the same thing. Sharing on the Internet today often means sharing my point of view. This way, some perspectives can become very dominant and impose a centralized perspective of looking at things.” This is why Flaka Haliti ends the question in the title of her series with a period. Born in Pristina, Kosovo, Flaka Haliti studied in her hometown and at Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. She represented the Republic of Kosovo at the Venice Biennale in 2015. She has held solo exhibitions at mumok – Museum Moderner Kunst in Wien, Kunsthaus Hamburg, and recently at Cukrarna, Ljubljana. In 2019, she was shortlisted for the Preis der Nationalgalerie and exhibited her work at Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof.