David and Goliath

Performances

David and Goliath
2024
total loop of 2 hours: performance duration 15 min, break 10 min, and so on
soundtrack : Jocelyn Robert, excerpt from Le Piano Flou #1 - Le Pont
Produced as part of the International Residency Exchange Program, MMCA Goyang
and supported by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.
photo©DianeLandry

  • During Open Studio, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA)
    Goyang, Seoul, South Korea.
 


Two large sheets of paper are suspended in the air by multiple threads. A woman with two sticks operates the wrinkled sheets. Many shapes emerge and flee, mountains, clouds, waves, flowers, aquatic creatures. The manipulator tries to tame the monster hidden in the aerial element. However, an improbability of representation has been introduced into the mythical battle, instead of two men, a woman with rudimentary tools. And the question remains: is she David or Goliath? Is this a new kind of fight to know and understand the adversary? When the confrontation ends, neither winner nor loser, just a metaphorical struggle of the work to be done to survive the heat-bearing scarecrow.

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