• Sombre. In the Shadows of Our Time

    Gare du nord, Basel, Switzerland

    Can the love of beauty transform into barbarity? In many of her works, the acclaimed Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho (1952–2023) approached ambivalent cultural figures in order to understand how destructive tendencies can arise not just from the margins of our culture, but from its very heart. Saariaho’s examinations of the poet Ezra Pound — an..

  • Sombre. In the Shadows of Our Time.

    Gare du nord, Basel, Switzerland

    Can the love of beauty transform into barbarity? In many of her works, the acclaimed Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho (1952–2023) approached ambivalent cultural figures in order to understand how destructive tendencies can arise not just from the margins of our culture, but from its very heart. Saariaho’s examinations of the poet Ezra Pound — an..