QUIET

Presented at Neue Nationalgalerie as an official feature of Berlin Art Week 2023, it is so quiet out here, it is the quietest place in the world is a duet built through repetition, acceleration, and stillness. Two performers inhabit a shared yet distanced space, tracing a choreography of gestures that resist closure until both yield to a suspended stillness. A final cigarette, a breath held and released.
A passage of flesh-toned carnations, arranged in salvaged glass bottles gathered from the streets of Berlin, cuts across the museum’s austerity. Referencing gestures of endurance and informal economies, the act speaks to fragility both private and systemic. Flowers in their prime, already inclining toward decay, occupy the space as a quiet defiance of monumentality.
The audience, seated in opposition, mirrors itself across the aisle, held in a standoff that remains unresolved, gently implicated in the slow dissolution of form and meaning. Krazoudi shapes a performance that moves between the operatic and the minimal, the comic and the mournful, allowing a gradual burn into what resists grasp.

QUIET

It is so quiet out here, it is the quietest place in the world

Dafni Krazoudi’s new piece is a site-specific bow between life and death. A tragicomedy of one character with endless incarnations. A subtle surprise of understanding what you didn’t know that you are. A field that becomes horizon. A body that becomes perspective. The gentle wisdom of today’s ending.