Pure Taste Indicator - Artist Page

Working with different media such as dance performance, video, and archival material, my practice aims to stress the link between the moving body and people’s background and history. Through their portrait in movement (looking at the way one person moves), I wish to highlight the political and socio-cultural contexts that have directly organized/shaped them. During the process, I organize interviews in order to better know the person I am working on, and to be able to connect her way of moving to her personal life. They often become part of the outcome. I have observed people from different cultural backgrounds living in different parts of the world (China, Holland, France), as well as professional dancers’ ways of working. There is in the way dancers freely creates movement material, habits and movement patterns that reveal a certain training and history of the dancer. This is the main element I am looking at when working with dancers. The body remembers by repeating or by interacting with a particular environment throughout a long period of time. I then look at people’s past or follow them during a long period of time. Notions of time, difference and repetition, and space are important in my work. The moving body is a filter of experiences, it is made of traces of a way of living and therefore deeply connects to someone’s history. But it also transforms and adapts to its environment. I am particularly interested in the body’s ability to document and remember while being very porous and changeable.