Marianische Antiphonen I (Tafel) [Marian Antiphons I (Board)]

For each of Gabriel’s performances there exists a so-called Tafel [Board].

This board gives us, in the text-image combination of nine photographs and nine text fragments, an overview of the course of events in the performance from August 5, 2019. The most important acts are outlined in simple, sometimes humorous, sometimes cryptic words. Postfactum we reconstruct as viewers – poetizing ourselves – the past, its sequences, empty spaces, physicality, and interstices.

The most important acts were: going to the Convento de Cristo, the refreshment after a long journey at a well, the retreat of the ‘soldier’, who puts down his boots – his most important tool – cleans them and then cleanses himself in three ritual acts, entering the house of God, into which he carries the newborn life, the Coming God. (He is in the form of a kitten, to which Gabriel gave the name NEO). Then the expulsion from this house by a representative of the institution and the return to the starting point and place of the cleansing ritual. There Gabriel writes four letters to the shepherd children and to Mary. He becomes a messenger and receives the inner call to carry them to Fátima, the location of the Visions of Mary. The further course of this journey is the subject and content of the Marianische Antiphonen II & III [Marian Antiphons II & III].