æ mirror image to the lovers explores intimacy as a space of ongoing negotiation, where private and public are never entirely separate. Where does intimacy end, and where does performance begin?

On stage, two bodies continuously construct and unravel the possibility of being together. Through gestures of care, resistance, dependence and control, they negotiate the terms of their encounter. The couple emerges as an unstable condition, constantly moving between closeness and distance, autonomy and surrender, connection and impossibility.

At the heart of the work lies a tension between the power of love and the love of power. Moving through codes associated with masculinity and femininity, the two bodies explore how roles, expectations and power dynamics inhabit even the most intimate spaces. What appears personal is never entirely separate from what we have learned, inherited and internalised.

æ mirror image to the lovers views the relationship as both a private encounter and a public construction: something that happens between two people, yet takes shape through the codes by which intimacy is recognised, performed and interpreted.