Installation, white drawing pins, transparent nylon thread, white balloons, 215 x 100 x 260 cm

 

HD video projection, 3’46’’, loop, composition from sound recordings of breathing in and out, balloon blowing and deflating, played by three different sources.

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The trace of a life, a breath, a creation. My research has focused on the original breath: what gives to see without showing himself. How can one capture the impalpable trace of a breath, this element so vital, elemental and ephemeral ? Apprehend it differently and suspend its time? Capture this vital process, the creative breath in perpetual transformation? This installation can be experienced by immerging into a particular atmosphere that is both heavy and soothing. It is a participative artwork for which I collected the breaths of different people to suspend them. Between absence and presence, this so “infrathin” breath mixes islets, atoms with a floating weight between the empty, the full and nothingness. On the floor lie balloons that deflated over time, as residual traces. A video projects the vibrations of a breath settling on water or on a swirling flame. An embryo is hidden and then revealed. Reversibility is thus studied by referring to Georges Didi-Huberman’s "La ressemblance par contact" (2008). A game operates between form/counterform, resemblance/ dissimilarity, disfigurement/refiguration, construction/disappearance, the animate/the inanimate.