In The Dark, We Play
Tue 02 DecCommissioned by The Cosmic House, Lina Lapelytė’s film In the Dark, We Play is part of a site-specific installation currently on view at The Cosmic House, architectural critic Charles Jencks’s former home and Post-Modernist manifesto in Holland Park.
Taking inspiration from the polyphonic nature of The Cosmic House and weaving in new contemporary voices, Lapelytė and her collaborators (Nouria Bah, Anat Ben-David, Angharad Davies, Sharon Gal, Rebecca Horrox, and Martynas Norvaišas) foreground the mundane and sensory, and invite intimate engagement with the house through their divergent elucidations of the cosmic. In the film, a series of scenes follow the performers as they ponder, commune, and weave new interpretations of cosmic themes. They playfully inhabit the house, drawing out some details and symbols and sliding past others – like the orbit of a singing comet that comes tantalisingly close before arching far away into mystery.
Special Screening
The screening will be accompanied by a conversation with Lithuanian artist and composer Lina Lapelytė and Lev Bratishenko, writer, curator, critic, and Twister of Meaning at The Cosmic House.
Conceived in collaboration with Nouria Bah, Anat Ben-David, Angharad Davies, Sharon Gal, Rebecca Horrox, and Martynas Norvaišas, 2025.
Commissioned by the Jencks Foundation at The Cosmic House.
This event is organised with the generous support of the Lithuanian Embassy.
- : Lina Lapelytė, In the Dark, We Play, 2025, video still by Martynas Norvaišas, conceived in collaboration with Nouria Bah, Anat Ben-David, Angharad Davies, Sharon Gal, Rebecca Horrox, and Martynas Norvaišas, commissioned by The Cosmic House.