Bosse Provoost and Ezra Veldhuis have been exploring the borderlands between theater, performance and installation art together since 2018. Their work is infused with a fascination for light, space and scenography.
Through compositions of light shifts, sound patches and silences, they create ever-changing spaces populated by semi-human-looking figures. Theater spaces are energized into ‘environments’, in which metatheatrical and ecosystemic logics diverge.
Poetry is not only at the origin of most of their work (Celan, Christensen, Brautigan…), the performances are also constructed following poetic principles and can be read as scenic poems.
In the past seasons, they have created the performances Matisklo (2018), SUN-SET (2020) and Indoor Weather (2021) within the P.U.L.S. trajectory (2017−2021) of Toneelhuis. Currently, the artistic practice of Ezra Veldhuis and Bosse Provoost is supported by Hiros.
In October 2023 they premiered their latest performance All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace.
In november 2024 they will present the first version of a new installation a pulse with no body a sun with no sky
A Stone Flies Up Over the Mountains (EN+NL) is a labyrinthine hybrid book that can be read and viewed in different ways, linearly or jumping between pages.
Red Planet Sunset is a custom made edition of 550 pieces, made of colored gel filters normally used in theater spots. Commissioned by Auawirleben Festival (Bern, CH).
Bosse Provoost (°1993, BE) is a performing artist/director. He completed the master’s degree in Drama at KASK Ghent in 2016. He’s been collaborating with Ezra Veldhuis since 2018.
He made his first performances (Herberg, Moore Bacon! and The Act of Dying) with Kobe Chielens, in which they explored the physical idiom of figures in animated films. In 2016 they received the KBC-Jongtheaterprijs at Theater Aan Zee for their performance Moore Bacon!
Between 2017 and 2021, Bosse Provoost was part of the Project for Upcoming artists for the Large Stage trajectory (P.U.L.S.) of Toneelhuis.
Throughout the years his performances have evolved from theatre with a strong visual signature to installation-performances, which play on theatricality, but are rather grounded in poetry, scenography and choreography.
A Stone Flies Up Over the Mountains (EN+NL) is a labyrinthine hybrid book that can be read and viewed in different ways, linearly or jumping between pages.
Red Planet Sunset is a custom made edition of 550 pieces, made of colored gel filters normally used in theater spots. Commissioned by Auawirleben Festival (Bern, CH).
Ezra Veldhuis (°1991, NL) is a visual artist.
She completed the master’s degree in painting at the School of Arts|KASK Ghent in 2017. In her installations, paintings and videos, light as a material and as a subject is at the core. She also works as a lighting designer and scenographer and has been creating her own performances since 2018. Her paintings were selected for the KOMASK Prize 2017 and the Great Ernst Albert Prize 2018, for which she received an honorable mention.
Since 2021, she has been affiliated with School of Arts|KASK Ghent as a researcher through the Reflecting Light Research Group.
A Stone Flies Up Over the Mountains (EN+NL) is a labyrinthine hybrid book that can be read and viewed in different ways, linearly or jumping between pages.
Red Planet Sunset is a custom made edition of 550 pieces, made of colored gel filters normally used in theater spots. Commissioned by Auawirleben Festival (Bern, CH).
Iron Oxide is a triptych inspired by Mars and its atmosphere. The atmosphere on Mars is filled with dust particles that refract light, turning the sky there orange-brown.
In the series of panels (created between 2015 and 2018), an immeasurably large volume is suggested in the empty space between the different frames, as if the paintings are just fragments of a hyperobject that cannot be captured in one space.
