LIVE, 2010
Choose a photograph, then start it up, perform it, make it live.
An exhibition
Point Ephémère, Paris
FRANCAIS
LIVE
#5, Why be blue, September 10, 2010
White
room. Make it dark : bring down the iron curtains, turn off the lights.
In this darkness, a strip of pristine white photo paper (1,27 x 4,20 m)
is suspended vertically alongside a wall, two smaller ones are held up
with objects (a scraper, a scaffold ladder). Bring up the iron curtains,
turn on the lights. The paper turns blue, shapes (those of the objects)
appear in reserve, white. The day after, all is blue. Length : 48 hours.
LIVE
#4, hand + hand, June 15, 2010
The photograph (actual size) represents the plaster cast of a
hand – no matter whose hand. The performance consists in putting
your hand on the image. The performance ends with removing the hand. The
walls of the exhibition space are light gray ; a black carpet on the ground
has been rolled up. Length : 1’.
LIVE
#3, Black striped, white striped, June 1, 2010
1° The exhibition room is white and « suprematist » with
colored forms and black lines. It imitates the document placed on the
wall : a card from the French colonial era with a picture of a black young
woman’s scarified belly. 2° Connect a grinder and « scarify
» the walls and then the glass in front of the image. Length : 15’.
LIVE #2, Don't move, die,
resucitate n° 3, March 3, 2010 (with Pascal Lièvre)
The exhibition room has been painted hot pink. The action consists
in hanging on the wall, with scotch tape, a Robert Mapplethorpe photograph
: Self-portrait, 1978 also called « self-portrait with
the whip » and destroying it with a whip. Length : 40’.
video
LIVE #1, Tennis, February 5, 2010
A young woman is playing tennis in front of a photograph of a 1930s
tennis player. The image shows the player in full motion after having
returned a ball. The walls of the exhibition hall are painted black.
A white horizontal line, the net, is painted at the height of one meter.
Progressively, the tennis player plays on all the walls of the exhibition
space. With Charlotte Douwma. Length : 20’.
^ LIVE communiqué de presse / press release
Point Ephémère, 200, quai de Valmy, 75010 Paris, M° Jaurès