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How does fear manifest? Welcome to the world premiere of Maria Metsalu’s new performance.

Through a synthesis of movement, visual design, and poetic metaphor, Permanent Resident maps the geology of a psyche, creating a visually and physically demanding exploration of what it means to live intimately with a fear that has become home.

– Maria Metsalu

Permanent Resident is a new solo work by Maria Metsalu that proposes fear not as a temporary emotion, but as the fundamental architecture of the self. Installed within the Great Hall of the museum, the work unfolds as an internal childlike landscape - one in which the performer’s body negotiates a dynamic and paradoxical relationship with its surroundings.