InBetweenWorlds
Six bronzes.
At the threshold of the visible.
Perfect Harmony
Violin and trumpet merge into a single bronze organism. Brass valves take the place of strings; the trumpet’s bell rises like a form grown from the earth; doubled violin scrolls suggest a heart. Neither instrument disappears, yet both are transformed. The work treats concord not as sameness but as complex compatibility within difference.
Sound leaves a trace.
Silence takes a body.
Motherhood
The intimate.The unsettled.
Motherhood is presented as a contested social and psychological condition rather than a sentimental ideal. A doll-like figure, her face obscured by hospital gauze, evokes medicalisation, objectification and the erasure of identity beneath an imposed role. A door in the torso reveals a child’s golden face. Tenderness, estrangement, nurture and cultural expectation remain unresolved.
Violinist
A contorted chimeric figure lifts its face toward an unseen height while pressing a violin into its chest. Broken strings turn self-expression into discord and anguish. Human, animal and instrument fuse in a body that recalls ancient monsters and Gothic grotesques. Beauty and horror, passion and madness, creation and destruction remain in unresolved counterpoint.
and the last dance
Totentanz
A cat-like, spectral figure leaps as if born from fire. Suspended on the edge of oblivion, the dancer embodies the historical Dance of Death while refusing stillness or resignation. Decay is present, but so is fierce grace. Life and death are held in one gesture, suggesting that art continues to move even as physical form yields to time.
Moon Rider
A celestial-headed figure rides a menacing animal whose lunar surface, predatory teeth and mythic bearing place it at the entrance to the subconscious. Created alongside Auerbach’s opera Gogol, the work moves between visual art, music and literary imagination. Protection and threat, childhood wonder and nocturnal mystery inhabit one apparition.
NYX
Named for the Greek primordial goddess of night, NYX gathers archaic symbols into a compact cosmology. A contemplative being rests within the curve of a moon, joining life and death, observer and observed. Engraved musical references connect the sculpture to Auerbach’s violin concerto NYX: Fractured Dreams. Night becomes a field of transformation.
One world.
Many thresholds.
Perfect Harmony · Motherhood · Violinist · Totentanz · Moon Rider · NYX
Six bronze sculptures by Lera Auerbach, presented at Konzerthaus Dortmund during her Zeitinsel.
2026
