Table scenes

Puppet exhibition In cooperation with the Lutkovnim gledališčem Ljubljana

Many actions people do automatically, guided by various causes and needs. Most such things are ordinary, so we don’t ask ourselves about the conscious and unconscious motivations and impulses behind them. We simply feel they are necessary for our physical, social, and spiritual survival. But if, as in some heautoscopic vision, people could step outside of themselves and view themselves and humanity from a distance, they would surely be surprised at what they see. What happens in front of them would unfold, as it were, on a gigantic stage called “Life”; the performers would begin to seem exactly like puppets controlled by some higher force and fate. They would be born and would die, would love and hate, work and be lazy; some would be progressives, others reactionary, but they would all be cut from the same cloth. There would be a silent, average majority, with similar gestures, attitudes, and movements, and it would be impossible to detect any individual yearnings among them, for even the yearnings that did exist would be drowned out on the surface by the common will of the majority. Omerzu’s microcosms illustrate this: we sit at tables like compliant puppets – we are all at tables laid for a meal, but one group is at a worktable set up for work, a second group at an endless dinner party to have some fun, a third group at a gaming table to pass the time, a fourth group at a round table for a chat, a fifth group at a kitchen table preparing food, a six group in negotiations around a green table, a seventh group … and so on.

Dr. Jure Mikuž