The enigma of the late afternoon is visual arts and theatre in the same performance, created as a collaborative project between Danish performance theatre Hotel Pro Forma and Japanese performance theatre Dumb Type.

It was performed at the New Carlsberg Glyptotek Museum in the fall of 1992. The point of origin for the performance is the metaphysical image-world of the Italian painter Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978). A visual arts world framed by elements of the Antique epoch and underlined by symbolic excamples of modern technology. Past and present meet on the empty place of eternity. As a refrence to this, the classic rows of colums, porticos and statues in the New Carlsberg Glyptotek Museum create a grandous frame around the performance, which in form and content unites visual art, architecture and technology, a historic past and a modern present.