“Open space” is inspired by a backlit aquarium device by physiologist and inventor Etienne Jules Marey, to study the dynamics of fluids in liquid form. A device that I experienced under the eye of the camera and in performance. The film is the meeting of my internal rhythm and that of the water; lapping, reflections, refraction, shock waves, undulations,... a dive in the inland sea. The film is part of the "Breathing Landscape" series. Performed version: I am standing, vertical facing my horizon line which scrolls on a screen. Ideal location, between heaven and earth, facing the sea. I read lines of writing. I discover that speech is breath. And that to blow is to create air, in other words, space. The air of nothing, reading becomes a "gesture of space", a dance with images, or rather a swim. As if I could breathe on them to bring them to life. As if they could make me breathe, exist.
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