On September 10th Nadar presents Lesaserma Pokhunakhis at Gogolfest in Kiev.
Lesaserma Pokhunakis:
Four young, multitalented composers tell the exceptional life story of Lesaserma Pokhunakhis (1925-1983). After fleeing from the Greek military junta in 1967 – in which her husband died – she secretly worked in Yerbogachen (Russia) on her magnum opus ‘Bourozyom’ (‘the brown soil’). Her 50.000 handwritten pages of scientific findings, were an unexpected legacy from an introvert baker’s wife who corresponded with Iannis Xenakis and had a remarkable influence on Marina Abramovic her ‘Balkan Erotic Epic’.
Sergey Khismatov, Alexander Khubeev, Alex Nadzharov and Marina Poleukhina are inspired by her lifework, and together create a remarkable, unsettling and fascinating performance about the work of a forgotten woman, in which nothing is what it seems. Lesaerma Pokhunakhis is produced by Ultima Oslo, Concertgebouw Brugge and Nadar.