Graft
Physically engaged within the work, performers literally connect to the sculptures, which reveal anfractuosities enveloping or swallowing different parts of their bodies. From these couplings between man and matter, a series of sculptural chimeras emerges and transcends the enclosed space of the gallery, seemingly auguring a new species to come.
This series of ephemeral sculptures made out of wood and unmodified human being was first realised for Galerie Temple in Paris. Like a natural site for a work of Land Art, the white cube of Galerie Temple becomes an active part of the installation. This cube is both the site of production and theatre hosting these sculptural representations. Jumbles of wooden battens succeed one another in a series. They occupy the space organically, suggesting as much a vegetal profusion as the architecture of a web. Ghosts of a virtual world, they draw the traces of an invisible reality disrupting the neutrality of the white cube.
Physically engaged within the work, performers literally connect to the sculptures, which reveal anfractuosities enveloping or swallowing different parts of their bodies. From these couplings between man and matter, a series of sculptural chimeras emerges and transcends the enclosed space of the gallery, seemingly auguring a new species to come.
In this world, the continuous and radical impact of technology caused the borders between man, object and environment to vanish. The new species, whose identity is fragmented, experiments the unlimited horizon of a virtuality that doesn’t involve the physical presence of bodies. It happens as if humankind had been recently affected by an unprecedented dysfunction, and had to retrieve this sensation of physical presence. These rudimentary sculptures explore a form of post-humanity. The world in the age of the Anthropocene is no longer exclusively bounded to the three-dimensional perspective of images representing a landscape or a character. From now on, it can also be comprehended through multiple virtual spaces, each of which has its own perspective. In this series, we stage this speculative utopia that is the Anthropocene.
Graft is an art project at the intersection between sculpture, performance, dance, photography and video.
We are currently developing the project at the cultural space 104 in Paris, with an art residency, and we will perform in the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris (18th and 19th of June), for the DANSE ELARGIE contest.
