Ślady wierności (tracks of faith), PL-Gdañsk 2005

by Angelika Fojtuch and Johannes Deimling

Duration 10 minutes

Description of action She kneels in front of milkpot and an old coffeepot. She pours in the old coffeepot the milk, that directly runs out of a chink on the floor. With a rag she wipes the milk and wring out the rag over the coffeepot. So she tries to collect the milk in the pot, that all the times runs out of the chink on the floor.

He is standing on the stairs and helds a red rose wrapped in newspapers in his hands. One after another he takes a page of that newspaper, held it like he reads it in front of him, burns it, so that it burns between his hands. After all pages are brunt, he take the rose and goes to her, stops her action an gives her the rose in her hand.

He picks a petal of the rose and stucks it into the face of her. She hits him with full force on the right cheek. Once more he picks up a petal of the rose and stucks into the face of her. Again she hits him hardly in the face. This action will be repeat some more times. With the time the face of her fills up with red rosepetals and the cheek of him reddens after a short time. Suddenly he breaks the stalk of the rose and she let it fall in the same moment. He takes her on his back and carry her out of the room.

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