Emilie Pitoiset | À l'oeuvre 2020
Émilie Pitoiset is an artist and choreographer.
From sculpture to installation through video and performance, her work deals with the resistance of bodies through dance, clubbing, sport, sexuality, money... as many alienating symptoms and vehicles of our fantasies. Her work has been presented in several institutions in France and abroad: Centre Pompidou, Centre National de la Danse, Witte de With, Shirn Museum Frankfurt, Tai Kwun Contemporary Hong Kong...
Transcript
Since the Middle Ages, unexplained phenomena of dansomania have occurred where people start dancing without any real explanation. I’m interested to see how people go so far as to put themselves in a state of extreme exhaustion in order to feel alive, and even resist repression, whether it be religious, legal, or simply of the tribulations of life.
I have developed a whole body of work of metal sculptures in which I search for positions of equilibrium. These are systems of contact points that are a little complex but which are in fact natural in a relationship with the body in a situation of exhaustion, a body being dismantled, struggling not to fall.
There’s also a body of work on images which I call “scores,” in which I analyze the points of contact of a body, and reveal them with lines that show that the body doesn't necessarily simply stand on its two legs, but that there’s a whole mechanism that holds up this body that is completely unbalanced.