The labyrinth body, 2015-2019
Dak’Art, 2016
Dakar, Senegal
Dak’Art, 2016
Dakar, Senegal
Crepe paper
Water
Water
We all need a new departure to help us continue to exist.
The work expresses a set of emotions caused by our deplacement in biomorphic forms in order to raise the question on the ability to transform our body through emotions. A transformation to the extreme which can lead to a radical disappearance of our initial form. The forms are repeated patterns in different ways. They are creating a language that accentuates the departure melancholy.
The work with its folds resembles a labyrinth. The folds physically replace my skin. Having nothing except my body, I take refuge under my skin. To protect myself, I created layers of skin to replace a place of refuge (house, shelter, roof, ...). On the other hand, the labyrinth form is a metonymy of the search for oneself, because it requires a continuous wandering, a renunciation of the knowledge of the place where one is.
Each piece in the work can be worn in different ways. Each piece is unique, like every day in my life: existential yet without a reason to exist, defined yet without instability, disproportionate yet limited, born yet dying, strong yet powerless, inhabited yet neglected, lost yet found, chaotic yet methodical, present yet elsewhere, around yet inside, clothing yet skin, internal yet external, utopian yet violent, constructive yet subversive.
As part of my intervention, and through playing with appearance and disappearance, I go further in this experience in order to achieve a formal erasure. The finality of the work is the expression of a tenuous and fleeting reality.
