{"id":27440,"date":"2026-11-13T14:45:39","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T11:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/terrarecognita.com\/?p=27440"},"modified":"2026-11-13T14:53:39","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T11:53:39","slug":"biography-a-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terrarecognita.com\/en\/biography-a-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography – a game?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A biography is always written about someone
who is no longer here.
About the child we once were.
About the roles we were given or chose.
About Narcissus, Hamlet, Don Quixote, Icarus, Sisyphus and Judith \u2013
about those whose stories we still recognise ourselves in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his play \u201cBiography: A Game\u201d, Max Frisch gives a person the chance to go back and play out their life once more. But if we changed a single scene, would we change the whole story that follows?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every evening, when we lie down, we leave behind the time we lived through during the day. In dreams we can return to places we have been, meet those who are no longer here, and become what we never became.
And in the morning we return.
But do we return as the same people?
Perhaps a biography is more than what happened to us.
Perhaps it is also what we keep making of it each time we play it out again.
How many lives can one biography hold?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Materials: basalt, silver.
Exhibited at ArtVilnius, the International Contemporary Art Fair, in 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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