L’ouvert de l’espace is inspired by a backlit aquarium device by the physiologist and inventor Etienne Jules Marey, to study the dynamics of fluids in liquid form. A device that I experimented with under the eye of the camera and in performance. The film is the meeting of my internal rhythm and that of water; lapping, reflections, refraction, shock waves, ripples, ... a dive into the inland sea. The film is part of the series "Landscape to breathe". Performed version: I am standing, vertical facing my horizon line which scrolls on a screen. Ideal situation, between sky and earth, facing the sea. I read lines of writing. I discover that speech is breath. And that blowing is creating air, in other words space. Without seeming to, reading becomes a "gesture of space", a dance with the images, or rather a swim. As if I could blow on them to bring them to life. As if they could make me breathe, exist.
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