The Figure is there, but never fully available to vision.

 

Inspired by Samuel Beckett’s Ill Seen Ill Said,  Beckett's work depicts a vanishing world and how it can barely be glimpsed through language. This scenographic project explores the unstable relationship between body, material and visibility. Fragmented landscapes, drawn figures and photographic collage produce a world that is never fully seen. Human bodies appear as traces within an overwhelming material environment, moving between presence and disappearance. Here, scenography becomes a way of thinking through perception: space is not a fixed container for action, but something continuously formed through darkness, scale, surface and the act of looking.

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Credits: Storytelling and Scenography by Jing Wang Thomas and Emilly Pavlatou, presented at Royal Central School of Speech & Drama