Ueli Hirzel: Sandscapes

The round as an echo of the circus ring, where danger and vulnerability are real. Nothing can be hidden. Everything is here.

“A long time ago, Ueli Hirzel was a circus acrobat, more precisely a tightrope walker. He then began working behind the scenes, creating a space for aspiring artists at his Château de Monthelon in France. With Hirzel's support, numerous successful and groundbreaking productions outside the mainstream were created. Today, Ueli Hirzel no longer makes any major contortions when he takes the stage. He takes a few brooms with him and shows us a kind of essence of circus life. Or of life itself? You could call it radical wisdom of old age. Even though Hirzel comes across as anything but old when he argues with himself and the audience.”