Unfinished Poems (Poèmes inachevés)

Where do ideas that have never reached their final form go? The unfinished films, plays, or poems? And what about the people who leave? Where do they go? What happens to incomplete reports? Farewells that never turned into embraces? Can the trace of those absent inhabit our present, opening a window for us to look the future in the eyes? These questions inspired a performance, a piece about unfinished artistic creations that continue to fuel, like combustible materials, both art and life itself.

This work is a poetic stage composition that proposes a metadramatic and transcendent meeting ground for both absent and present creators, their unfinished works, their communities, and humanity. Relying on a fragmentary dramaturgy, the performance employs words – images, sounds, concepts, and reflections – left hanging by great “poets” to challenge itself against the existential, artistic, and political anguish of a life that passes, ends, and is cut, while also touching upon the comforting, humanistic dimension of great art.