CORPS SAINT-ESPRIT SAIN, video-projection, 2007
1 miniDV digital video, black&white, stereo sound, loop. Wall projection + ampli/speakers. Edition 2 + 1EA.
CORPS SAINT-ESPRIT SAIN shows the meeting of two black volumes. One is moving, the other is still. They are facing each other. One the step, the body produces constant and repetitive movements. This action creates a rhythm, a corporeal rhythm, which is given to the space. The three elements - the body, the step, the television - are interrelated. But the rhythm pointes out an ambiguity, as for the motive of the action. Which part of these three elements creates the tempo ? Is it the body that makes the machine move or is it the machine that sets the rhythm ? It also questions the relation between the tv and the body-machine. This absurd and mechanical action questions the spectator's viewpoint. Should he identify with this moving body ? Or with the tv as a voyeur ?
