2000
Installation
Frozen dress, ice, deep frozen house.
Human size.

Color print, styroglass, steel:
100 x 80.

2000
Perishable Installation
Contemporary Art Centre Albert Chanot, Clamart, France.
Frozen dress, Ice.
Human size.

This frozen dress was made for the openings of the exhibition Body Sensation in Clamart. When it melted, the dress was moving very slowly, the movement changed, until it was a wet clothes, empty enveloppe.

I'm very interested by Contemporary dance, reflexion about body and movement, relation between each other, how we integrate our body. I thought about freezeing some clothes to create a slow dance, a slow movement, a slow motion by melting. It's a conservation of our body against time and how we want to keep the same lool at someone. It's also a sort of movement that no-body could ever intend to, and made because sometimes i twist the clothes in every direction. It's a very malleable materials, with many steps of structure with the ice. Finally it's still a fix movement, an instantly movement as it is kept by the photography. It's very close to the cryogenics photographs with a life afterwards and still a movement inside the things which looks like empty of life. They are in expectation.

The frozen clothes are an other steps from our frozen bodie, from our conservation. It's a new approach of ourself by meeting our double, the memory of ourself and others. It's about the body, and how we want people look at us. The frozen dancer are sometimes a skin that we want to wear or from where we try to escape. It's also a mirror, it's a double that we're going to fight or love, it's a obstacle to grow up until it hasn't melt, it's a twin. It's a deep way into our water origin. Those frozen clothes are done to be use in performance with dancer. Then they could play with this installation. It will become a dancer as well, a skin, an instrument to play sound also.