Lupus In FabulaĀ
Video-sound installation, cloth, cables
31 minutes, three screens documentary
Bildmuseet, UmeƄ Sweden 2021
The documentary has been recorded in Granƶ (a village in VƤsterbottens lƤn, Sweden), between December 2020 and April 2021. The difficulties, compromises and possibilities of movement through the landscape are documented in the film, revealing the concept of intimate Freedom; the context is captured in the routine and ritualsā frame of a female dog sled musherĀ team.Ā
Lupus in fabulaĀ
ā¹lĆ¹pus in fĆ bulaāŗ locuz. lat. (prop. "the wolf in the fairytale/speechā).āØ- Proverbial way, which is used to say when there is the arrival of a person whom we were talking about, or to whom we were alluding. The expression is commonly referred to the frequency of the wolf in Aesopian fables, hence the usual but approximate translation "the wolf in the fable". In truth, it is found in Terentius (Adelphoe IV, 1, 21), and in a slightly different form in Plato, then in Cicero (ad Att. XIII, 33: de Varrone loquebamur: lupus in fabula venit enim ad me)āØto indicate the fact that the arrival of a person cuts off the speech that was being made,āØwith allusion to the belief that when someone is first seen by the wolf, he loses his speechāØ(cf. Virg., Ec. IX, 53: vox quoque Moerim Iam fugit ipsa: wolves Moerim videre priores "even the voice itself has fled Meri: the wolves have seen Meri first");āØand Leonardo da Vinci: the wolf is still said to have the power, with his gaze, to make hoarse voices to men; hence also the popular saying: he saw the wolf or was looked at by the wolf, whose voice is weak from cold or other.Ā
Treccani DictionaryĀ
ā¹lĆ¹pus in fĆ bulaāŗ locuz. lat. (prop. "the wolf in the fairytale/speechā).āØ- Proverbial way, which is used to say when there is the arrival of a person whom we were talking about, or to whom we were alluding. The expression is commonly referred to the frequency of the wolf in Aesopian fables, hence the usual but approximate translation "the wolf in the fable". In truth, it is found in Terentius (Adelphoe IV, 1, 21), and in a slightly different form in Plato, then in Cicero (ad Att. XIII, 33: de Varrone loquebamur: lupus in fabula venit enim ad me)āØto indicate the fact that the arrival of a person cuts off the speech that was being made,āØwith allusion to the belief that when someone is first seen by the wolf, he loses his speechāØ(cf. Virg., Ec. IX, 53: vox quoque Moerim Iam fugit ipsa: wolves Moerim videre priores "even the voice itself has fled Meri: the wolves have seen Meri first");āØand Leonardo da Vinci: the wolf is still said to have the power, with his gaze, to make hoarse voices to men; hence also the popular saying: he saw the wolf or was looked at by the wolf, whose voice is weak from cold or other.Ā
Treccani DictionaryĀ
Lupus in Fabula reveals an enduring reality, a profession inherited from the ancestors, which changes and survives throughout the time and in this case, as in few other realities, reveals itself in Granƶ.Ā
Lupus in Fabula is not a classic fairy tale, it is a manifesto to the wildness, pure life and what it entails making agreements with it,āØperhaps tame it.Ā
Lupus in Fabula is a dense tale, speechless,
a screaming one.āØThere is silence once again, when the animal becomes part of history, there is silence and noise at the same time.āØTrue peace and poignant turmoil inside a human and animal heart.Ā
Lupus in Fabula is not a classic fairy tale, it is a manifesto to the wildness, pure life and what it entails making agreements with it,āØperhaps tame it.Ā
Lupus in Fabula is a dense tale, speechless,
a screaming one.āØThere is silence once again, when the animal becomes part of history, there is silence and noise at the same time.āØTrue peace and poignant turmoil inside a human and animal heart.Ā
