Video, Performance and Site-Specific work — Copenhagen
The Oracle From Lahore . Performance . Soundwork .
16.05-30.06.2025
FOYERcontemporary x Lake House / Art Matter Festival
The Oracle from Lahore
16.05-30.06.2025
A Ritual Performance by Evalajka Pervin
FOYERcotemporary x LakeHouse
Art Matter Festival 2025
Step into the sacred. The Oracle from Lahore is a live ritual performance by artist Evalajka Pervin, weaving together ancestral lineage, trance states, and audience encounter.
Inspired by ancient Eastern oracles—from Delphi to the subcontinent—this piece honours a female lineage rooted in what is now Pakistan, a land once united in spiritual and cultural practice. The oracle appears as a liminal figure: outside of ordinary time, yet intimately connected to communal desire and healing.
Visitors are invited to approach the oracle with questions. A thread is tied to their wrist—binding intention into a growing web of ritual and presence in the space.
Performed in a state of trance, the oracle speaks in tongues, guided by breath, intuition, and sacred preparation. The ritual involves purification, incense, prayer, and sensory immersion, creating a space for personal inquiry, spiritual exchange, and transformation.
Glimpse of live performance 00.45 min
Sound work
The Oracle from Lahore
Live recording from Performance
2025
Sound work
Following the performance, The Oracle from Lahore was realised as an independent sound work — an uncut audio track from the live performance, existing as a voice in the basement of Lake House. Presented as part of the conceptual format HEAR-AWAY at FOYERcontemporary — a sound art format with three participating artists,
including Mads Borre and Jørgen Leth.
Klöhauschen video installation
Klöhauschen video installation
In collaboration with Klohäuschen has an installation with an video work exploring the fields of tight spaces “ Breathe in and Breathe out “ been created.
During daylight you will see an insignificant change at the door to the urinal.
With a closer look you will see that it is covered with a see through familiar plastic structure; bubble wrap. There are peepholes which invite you to come closer crossing the boundaries as a voyeur into an intimate space covered in layers and layers of bubble wrap, at the same time covering and yet letting you see the familiar structure behind.
Inside if you listen carefully you will hear a subtle claustrophobic and hypnotic struggling breathing sound filling the space.
As night falls the installation gets stronger and more visible to the eyes. As the night falls the space comes alive.
Using the well known, everyday material bubble wrap is vital in this work. It acts as a key object in the video performed and therefore most importantly it unfolds as an object into the surrounding space and thus including the existing space into the existing artwork tying them together in a "joint third" a piece which can and will only exists while the installation is shown at Klohäuschen.