ARCHIVES 2010 / Not Waterproof

There is assuredly a set, a sky blue rectangle in the Chapelle des Pénitents blancs and a few transparent jars that have escaped from an anatomical cabinet, waiting for who knows what monsters. There are assuredly sounds, an atmosphere, a stage, all distilling an anxiety-provoking strangeness. But the essential element of this proposal lies in the sole body that moves, transforms itself, is forgotten, in front of us, at the centre of our view. As though it were undergoing rites, trials, experiences, it moults in contact with matter, through concrete but indefinable actions, incorporating the sound, light and visual ambiences. It crumbles, erodes, evoking the fragility of every being in the world. Each spectator sees what he wants in it, reinvents the play as the poetic incarnations of the artist, who literally installs an erroneous body before the public, unfold. "The abstraction of Not Waterproof is an invitation to the public to be creative." And this is what Julie Andrée T. jotted down on her working notebook. ADB