THE PLACE OF THE OTHER
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The Place of the Other presents itself as an ensemble of 4 pieces. Each of them centers on our proclivity to create relationships. Whether our attention is turned towards the human, animal, vegetable, mineral, or - in a virtuous circle - towards ourselves, the quadrilogy questions the way in which these environments transform together, how they affect each other.
To do this, the working methodology relies before anything else on the establishment of specific practice of encountering/meeting the other. This is inscribed both in the duration and in a contained area (community or geographically specific).
The movements come from a meticulous terrain study, situated for the large part in extreme rural areas. Each of these gestures are transmitted by those who practice them daily. They are then taken up by the artists and constitute the base of the choreography. Gestures of domestic life, rural gestures, workmen gestures, humble, silent, and unexpected - each of them witness to the complexity of life. They revive ambivalent relationships made each at the same time of opposition, antagonism, and mutualism.
Inspired by the meticulous structure of a Japanese tea ceremony, each of these pieces link the gestures so described, objects derived from reality or reworked for the occasion, poetic allusions and seasonal symbols. Each in their own way convoque the imaginative world of a still life. Food, visible and invisible, is the chosen means for circulating between the respective protagonists and the public. Little by little, the collection makes room for a question of great depth: what place are we capable of offering to the other?
Top notes: onions, mackerel
Middle notes: light breeze
Base notes: metal, pine wood
Yet each man kills the thing he loves
Top notes: humid earth, moss from the undergrowth
Middle notes: blood
Base notes: leather, humus
The salt of life
Top notes: gray salt, bones
Middle notes: tears
Base notes: sea spray, pickleweed
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