His new work, a play titled Liberté, poses the intriguing question of how the Serra aesthetic translates to the stage, and what’s more, in the glaring spotlight of Berlin’s storied Volksbühne-a target for protests since the appointment of Chris Dercon as artistic director last year. ![]() Moving into the gallery while insisting on cinematic qualities of duration and immersion, Serra has made his most demanding and complex works: the one hundred-hour Three Little Pigs (shot over the course of Documenta 13) and the five-channel video installation Singularity (commissioned for the Catalan Pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale). Following the droll anti-adaptations of Cervantes’s Don Quixote ( Honor of the Knights, 2006) and the Biblical parable of the Three Kings ( Birdsong, 2008), he staged the eighteenth-century passage from rationalism to romanticism as a tussle between Casanova and Dracula in The Story of My Death (2013), and revealed the cosmic absurdity of the Versailles court-and of death itself-by chronicling the Sun King’s slow expiration in The Death of Louis XIV (2016). ![]() His films bring the mythic past to life by distilling fabled events to eccentric anecdotes and imbuing figures of legend with the mundane weight of existence. THE FORTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD CATALAN DIRECTOR Albert Serra has brought his singular sensibility to bear on a remarkable range of works, straddling the film and art worlds with a rare understanding of the contexts of spectatorship and a flair for productive provocation.
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