palimpseste (this used to belong to... but then they disappeared)

site-specific video installation
in collaboration with Onirisme Collectif for Nuit Blanche, Paris, 2017

we were invited by Nuit Blanche to occupy Gymnase Curial, a public gymnasium, throughout an entire night. mattresses were laid out in a circle in the center of the room while each artist presented a piece of work to collectively fill one sleep cycle (90 minutes).

"palimpseste" is a video installation that subtitles the space as if it were a film. while the public lays on the mattresses, the text describes a group of women living under captivity in a gymnasium and their relationship to their setting, in direct echo with the spectateurs surroundings. with each repetition of a line, words begin to disappear, as do the women in Margaret Atwood's original book The Handmaid's Tale, from which the sentences were taken.

sleepers

video projection
in collaboration with Onirisme Collectif
for Nuit Blanche, Paris, 2017

following "palimpseste", "sleepers" is a constantly fading projection of a woman sleeping inside Tokyo's public train. like a filmed painting, her face half-covered by a towel and the surrounding elements create a dream-like, lethargic landscape that appears and disappears throughout the night, over the surface of a white bedsheet.