Carapaces, exosquelettes, organes, membranes, objets fossiles... Vestiges du vivant ou potentialités d’évolution, les sculptures (argile, latex, cire) de Laura Rouzet possèdent des frontières poreuses où les milieux humains, végétal, animal, minéral et artificiel se confondent et se prolongent. À l’intersection de l’installation et de la danse, son travail est marqué par l’expérience du corps, qu’elle perçoit comme un tissu connectif qui nous lie à l’autre. Sa pratique chorégraphique réside dans l'incarnation d’autres corporalités : “à travers le mouvement, le corps devient lieu de transition, capable de suggérer d'autres subjectivités, humaines et non-humaines." Mêlant l’étrange et le familier, ces corps liminaires questionnent notre rapport intime, physique et psychique à ce qui nous entoure dans un futur spéculatif, possible ou rêvé.
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THE ORCHID
Last time we spoke
It was few days after you had gone
I asked where you were and how you felt
You said,
“I’m ok but it’s difficult to get used
to the temperature of the water”
I wondered what have you become?
Can you move?
THE GIF OF SHELLS
Actually I can move
But Inside I’m empty
My body feels like a huge cavity,
Uninhabited, infinite, a void
Even the echoes of my heartbeat are muted
I’m the hollow shell of the deserter hermit
Thin and fragile, like a fine layer of ice,
I’m frozen
Lost in between the fluids of my thoughts
THE ORCHID
I wanted to talk about bodies,
About you
I wanted to talk about bones and corals,
About Virtual landscapes and digital selves
How the other lives when one is gone?
I did not know what to do about yours,
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Then, while I was peeling off my fake nails
I thought about how it had become
About Gel becoming hard shell
I then thought about seashells,
about consistency and crystal structure,
About viscosity and Calcium Carbonate,
I thought about imprint and mould
I thought about shapes again
What do we leave behind us?
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THE GIF OF SHELLS
Until 400 million years ago, all life forms belonged under the sea, that is where your mind evolved
One single cell to begin with
Sensing, responding, signalling
Then multiplying,
Gelatinous animals evolved as nerves
Contortions, contractions, and twitches
became pulses»
The development of your nervous system.
Your first movements»
Under a Digital Lake, 2020
Installation, performance, création audiovisuel et sonore
(dimensions variables)
Performance poème et installation: Laura Rouzet
Composition musique électronique: William Martin.
Avec la voix de Suzannah Hall et William Martin.
Laurie Grove exhibition space, Londres
Gerald Moore Gallery, "Environmental Crisis", Londres
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