my hair being cut, to which are added a dozen sequence shots related to water, virtual 3D objects and archive images.
It stems from crossed researches, particularly following my residency at La Source Garouste, on the poetics of water transformation, as a flow, a body, a space, but also as a medium for memories. This video is an in-situ video, reworked to include its projection location in the editing, in this case the bathroom of the Villa de Guelma. This piece is the second part of a sequence of video works related to memory and the flow of images.
I’m working here with an archive that is at once personal and foreign,public, lost and found.This narrative also starts from the same NASA anecdote and its minor repercussions, particularly on the watery body that forms a large part of this space. From this image of hair, I unfold the narrative of the video, through the cutting of my hair, the flow of water and the flow of images, intertwined with the fleeting memory of my archive images. The whole thing is punctuated with a scene showing three 3D containers through which water flows, representing a simplified version of a clepsydra, or water clock, which in ancient times was used to time speeches in an oratory.
It is about flow. The flow of water, the flow of images and that of collective memory, which is difficult to grasp. The one that brings objects to the surface that make us question what we thought we knew about ourselves.
Il est question de flux. Du flux de l’eau, du flux des images et celui de la mémoire collective, que l'on peine à saisir. Celui qui ramène des objets en sa surface qui nous font questionner ce que l'on pensait savoir de soi-même.