About
Performer
- Romeo Castellucci –
Stage Director, set designer - Cindy Van Acker –
Choroegrapher - Piersadnra Di Motto –
Dramaturgy - Theresa Wilson –
Costume Designer - Maxi Menja Lehmann –
Assistant Director - Alessio Valmori –
Set designer - Marco Giusti –
Lighting - Davide Luciano –
Don Giovanni - Mika Kares –
Il Commendatore - Nadezhda Pavlova –
Donna Anna - Michael Spyres –
Don Ottavio - Federica Lombardi –
Donna Elvira - Vito Priante –
Leporello - David Steffens –
Masetto - Anna Lucia Richte –
Zerlina - Arterna Choir –
music
Hall
Museum of Modern Art
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Between the Future Past celebrates the abundant diversity of Newark, New Jersey, and the New York metropolitan area. Layqa Nuna Yawar has reimagined the format of a historical mural to reflect an ongoing cycle of time that embraces past, present, and future. Drawing on his indigenous heritage and Kichwa language, he sees the mural as “a looped narrative that can be read from right to left and left to right.” The artwork features native flora and fauna, emphasizing nature as a symbol of growth.
It is populated by a wide range of individuals across time, culture, race, and gender, highlighting narratives of personal accomplishment and perseverance that have often been overlooked. People brought by successive waves of global migration, including those from Black, Brown, Asian, and Middle Eastern backgrounds, as well as Indigenous people, are represented in this expansive vision. From airport workers to poets to LGBTQ+ heroes, Layqa Nuna Yawar’s mural rethinks who should be celebrated publicly, proposing that all individuals are equally remarkable in their humanity.