SALOME

A scenographic exploration of Oscar Wilde's Salomé.

The project proposes architecture as an active participant in the drama rather than a passive setting. Drawing on the caryatids of the Erechtheion, a ring of monumental columns establishes a court that is at once ceremonial and unstable. As the performance unfolds, these architectural figures slowly rotate, shifting from classical monument to surreal image and exposing the hidden forces that govern the play.

At the centre of the stage, a long banquet table conceals a tiled cistern beneath a luminous white grid. The space becomes both ritual chamber and laboratory, where prophecy, desire and violence are examined through architecture, light and movement. Audience and performers occupy the same spatial field, collapsing the distance between observer and spectacle.

The design explores the tension between permanence and collapse, realism and dream, asking how architecture can construct power while simultaneously revealing its fragility.