Wu Tsang for Zurich magazine

It’s a warm day in mid-August in Zurich. Wu Tsang, artist, filmmaker, and for three years now, guest director at the city’s renowned Schauspielhaus theatre, is lying stretched out on the grass in the courtyard of the city’s former military barracks. Children play, an outdoor bar serves drinks. It’s an idyllic scene. Tsang stands out: clad in wide rust-brown trousers, a white crop top, her Telfar Clemens loafers casually kicked off, hair in a loose ponytail, she cuts a stylish, urban figure among the bright summer pastels.