Persephone at Yohji Making Waves – filming a story

Persephone at Yohji Making Waves was a performance given in July 2011 inside Yohji Yamamoto’s exquisite installation at The Wapping Project.

The installation – ‘Yohji Making Waves’ – was a collaboration between: designer Yohji Yamamoto, Wapping Project director Jules Wright, lighting designer Masao Nihei; and musician Billy Cowie. This truly mysterious, mythical installation conjured images of Hades and the River Styx, puberty and desire, fashion and sacrifice, fertility and death.

During the performance I was rowed across the water, as the audience stood on a pier gazing into the cavernous space, listening to the myth of Persephone.

Here is the film Fotios Begklis  has made, capturing the vast space,  light, reflections, immense dress, and fragments of story. My boatman that day was Mattias Malk.