FACTS:  Sally Potter and Rose English created the feature film The Gold Diggers in 1983, that embraces a radical and experimental narrative structure featuring photography by Babette Mangolte and a score by Lindsay Cooper. Synopsis: Celeste (Colette Laffont) is a computer clerk in a bank who becomes fascinated by the relationship between gold and power. Ruby (Julie Christie) is an enigmatic film star in quest of her childhood, her memories and the truth about her own identity. As their paths cross, they come to sense that there could be a link between the male struggle for economic supremacy and the female ideal of mysterious but “impotent beauty”.

In the late 1980s, Rose English created three full-length shows with extensive casts of performers at London’s theaters: Walks on Water (1988) at the Hackney Empire, and The Double Wedding (1991) and Tantamount Esperance (1994) at the Royal Court Theatre. With this trilogy, English created a “total work of art” combining various performance genres and forms, including music hall, circus, figure skating, spoken-word theater, and acrobatics. In each of her leading roles, as showgirl, hostess, and magician, English holds the audience spellbound. With charming self-irony and poetic profundity, she challenges norms and categorizations such as high and popular culture as well as illusion and reality, while foregrounding the ephemeral nature of performance and the conventions of the proscenium, the front of the stage. The exbibition ‘The Surface That Has To Be There For The Shadow To Reveal Itself’ is made possible in collaboration with Museum der Moderne Salzburg, 2024.

The exhibition program ‘X’ 2024 consists of four solo exhibitions by Mogens Jacobsen, Miriam Kongstad, Filip Vest and lastly, Rose English at Ringsted Galleriet including an eventsprogram at KINO Kultur Ringsted – one of Denmark’s oldest cinemas. For more information about the cinema and its filmprogram, check out: kinokultur.dk