Video, 23'' (format commissioned by CAC 23 in Creuse), 2018, with the participation of physarum polycephalum bacteria, on a landscape of colored alginate prints, Clitoria flower juice, mica dust glitter agar. Production: La Petite Escalère.
Compte-rendu [Peau de fleurs] is a work on the notion of landscape and the common body, a participatory work on the place of man (particularly the elderly), between the memory of water, the memory of the body, and the displacement of the living. Compte-rendu [Peau de fleurs] is a work on the notion of landscape and the common body, a participatory work on the place of man (especially the elderly), between the memory of water, the memory of the body, and the displacement of the living.
The film follows the medical assessment carried out at the end of the long collaboration, throughout 2018/19, between residents of the EHPAD du Prissé, suffering from Alzheimer's disease, pupils from the Prissé elementary school, bacteria and the Petite Escalère garden.
Themes such as housing, isolation and memory were exchanged between the two generations. The group then turned to contact dance and molding. The physarum polycephalum entered the scene at this stage. Primitive beings from prehistoric times, these unicellular bacteria represented the group's most vivid and eternal augmented imprint. We bred them, then I filmed their movements - slight bursts of attraction and retraction, like that of the tides - in time lapse, on the landscape composed of elements from our shared experiences: a starry blue ground tinted with clitoria flower and mica dust, enhanced by alginate reliefs extracted from our body casts.
The kaleidoscopic effect generates the shape of a pupil that dilates and retracts to the rhythm of techno music.