Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis: means a change of the form or nature of a thing or person into a completely different one. Each relationship changes a person, each honest artistic creation changes the artist. There are things to shed and a new form to embrace.
Metamorphosis, is a series of arts installations that aim to showcase Ganza Moise’s creative
journey, through his art, experimenting with words, sounds and Images in a ‘living space’ which
is the connection with the daily intimacy where a romantic relationship is consumed and where
ultimately the absence of an imagined future is experienced. An experience that is crystallized in
the poetic collection ‘Letting go’, written processing a romantic breakup .
The intention is for the audience to experience the feelings connected to the phases in the
artistic process and the phases in a romantic relationship, through installation that evokes
infatuation, impasse, and letting go are experienced through the walk through the different
spaces of the house, and by the end of it, hopefully buy the poetry collection “Letting Go”.
Project Timeline
Metamorphosis started from August 2023 and has been in the works, recording
First trial: work in progress
September 23rd, 2023
Second trial: Letting Go
February 22nd, 2024
Final Opening: Metamorphosis
August 13th, 2024
Artist profile
Ganza Moise is a published writer and an award-winning filmmaker with more than 8 short films, some of them like Muzunga, Sukut, Limbo among others are dramatic narrative works, and others like Sensory Overload, “Injiji” are experimental. He’s the co-founder of KIRURI MFN, an independent production company based in Kigali. He is also the co-initiator and curator of 250 Film Experiment Cine-Club, a cine-club based in Kigali, Rwanda .
Theme: Letting go
Metamorphosis is centered around Ganza’s poetry collection. Like the case of a caterpillar Letting go of itself to grow wings, letting go is a crucial step, it is the determining factor, the cracking of the cocoon, in the process of transformation.
This is why the book is the central point of the experience in the installation. The book will be sold during the installation and on the artist’s website.
Curator's note
“People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence, people who forget court another kind of madness, the madness of the denial of pain and the hatred of innocence; and the world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget.”
Contemplating the curatorial purpose behind this experimental collaboration with the multidisciplinary artist, Ganza Moise, I found myself continually drawn to the words of James Baldin in his book ‘Giovanni’s room’.
This quote is on several levels a crystallization of what is described above.It’s the highlighting of a tension between acknowledging pain and denying it. Ganza’s artistic process mirrors this tension, shaping his work from internal struggles. The proposed book presentation, “Letting Go,” encapsulated this journey.
The installation, held in an intimate space, a living room akin to Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room, merges Ganza’s artistic medium with daily life. Through video installations and soundscapes, the viewer experiences the resonance of (fragmented) cinema in a living space. The curator’s challenge lies in bridging film and poetry, creating an immersive experience.
We organized different ‘trials’ and presented draft versions to receive feedback from the experiences of the audience.
The first trial, “work in progress,” on September 23rd, 2023, took place in a furnished home, and “Letting go” on February 22nd, 2024, took place in a gallery similar to an empty home.
The trial installations engage selected participants as active contributors. Rather than passive observers, they become part of the narrative, and can experience and make the themes of ‘letting go’ and ‘transformation’ resonate with their personal experience as well as with the
universality of these themes.
Space ( A typical home)
The space is a living house with furniture and carefully placed artworks as part of the house. he exhibition’s experience is entering the house and going through the various spaces in it while interacting with the artworks. The light, design of the furniture and how it blends with the artworks is the whole experience.
The House will be consisting of 5 main spaces :
- Veranda
- Living Room
- Corridors
- 2 Sleeping Rooms
Medium of the artworks
Video
Experimental videos with infatuation as the theme
Texts
Bits and pieces of words around the space . An insight on the early birth of an idea. Bits and pieces of poems by Ganza Moise, ancient notes from his memories and encounters .
Audio
Recordings, intimate Confessions of various people on their highs and lows in relationships. A soundscape of ambient sounds, life sounds.
Book of thoughts
collected notes of the previous installations, feedback by the participants .
Medium of the artworks
House in Kimihurura
INDIBA Arts Space
Rwanda Arts Initiative
Program of the final installation
The installation will take five days from 15th to 22nd August 2024 . Each day the installation will be open for everyone to come in and experience metamorphosis. Everyday the installation will be open from 9 AM – 9 PM .
Three nights with the 5 days will be having special events from 6-8 PM in collaboration with various artists.
Day 1 : Opening of the installation (performance of some poems)
Day 3 : Interactions with artists on the collide , conversion of artforms
Day 5 : Book presentation and conversations on letting go ….
Technical requirements
- A space
- Projectors
- Printed words
- Stands and other mounting materials.
- Lights
- Sound Systems
- Headphones (Many of them)
- Computers
- Printing cost of the book
- Publishing cost of the book