We are looking at this scene and incredibly slowly our view begins to slide
We are looking at this scene and incredibly slowly our view begins to slide, 2018
Text and sculptural installation
MDF board, digital print, fragrance
Peninsular, Singapore
The work takes as its starting point the contagious nature of movement. Whereby movement has the ability to resonate through different kinds of bodies and materialities, in ways independent of them. Continuing from one body to the next, across time and space, it so questions the borders of where
one ends and the other begins.
Adopting text as a choreographic tool, a narrative score continues over a series of posters covering the walls of the gallery. It evokes a fleeting festival in which a group of women celebrates an undefined event, they sing and dance in company of withering crops. The narrative describes six cinematic images to unravel in the mind of the spectator.
Bringing forth a variety of voices and perspectives of the same event, the text is in part inspired by the ancient Athenian ritual of Adonia. An obscure celebration dedicated to the death of Adonis that was never part of the official calendar. Its mentions have mainly survived in the margins of male-centered history.
The installation includes a fragrance produced in collaboration with artist and perfumer Laurent-David Garnier.
