Since 1984, Christian Boltanski has been developing his installation Shadows at various monuments worldwide. He now adapts it to the spectacular baroque building of La Lonja de Palma turning the space into a fascinating puppet theater based on shadows and whispers.
Small metal cutouts are covered in stone walls acquiring a spectral dimension, which increases with choreographic movement of giant forms and gives the room an air of dream ritual.
From a christian mother and a Jewish father, Christian Boltanski (Paris, 1944) is a self-taught artist who left school at fourteen and began painting. He later worked with puppets and in the early eighties he began using photographs of anonymous people. Death, life and identity are recurring themes in his work, in which he uses fragile materials as witnesses of the briefness of life.
