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The visual devices that each performance deploys are  places of the dismantling of tired paradigms, through working from  historical layouts which were seminal : the scandal de Manet’s Olympia, the unmade bed in Fragonard’s « The Lock », the sexually-charged atmosphere in Nijinski’s “l’Après Midi d’un Faune”,  the sulfurous slogan «To My Sole Desire » from the sixth tapestry The  Lady and the Unicorn, the  ithyphallic figure Lascaux cave, the Big  Prostitute on the water in the apocalyptic visions of John, etc.

Because the bodies represented are taken in a complex network of  senses and meanings and that they sometimes become emblematic within an  instant T of the history of the world; because these known  respresentations nevertheless continue to vividly inform our very modes  of perception, the method – inventing itself progressively throughout  the work – consisting in entering into these old bodies in order to  construct the image that they had formed backwards, injecting it with  and through friction, history of art discourses, a critical history of  representations and personal histories to attempt to change the nature  of the view of them and consequently of us.

From experience, we can observe that the images last a long time and  thank goodness. But one part of what we think they represent can  collapse. Thank goodness again. Because it’s about creating collapse. At  any rate, the machines for reflecting upon the images, in which  languages (the accounts) and bodies (the actions) interpenetrate to dig  up dissident paths.

Source: Association OS

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