2min

Performance

Mutant Stage 2

The second episode of the Mutant Stage series was filmed in November 2014 by Elene Usdin. It is a fable that gives birth to various combinations of bodies and objects.

Graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in 1996, she is rewarded in 2006 by the Picto for young fashion photography prize and in 2008 with a mention at the International Photo Award. She published her first monography, Stories, at the Contrejour editions in 2013. Her work has been exhibited in solo show at the Galerie des arts graphiques, Paris; Galerie Farmani, Brooklyn; Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris. In 2014, the Museum of New Art de Detroit dedicated her and exhibition: Awake While I Am Dreaming.

Elene Usdin is an illustrator and photographer. Haunted by her dreams, she turns her enchanted vision of the world into images, colored with infinite imagination. Her thoroughly scripted photos combine a quest for the marvelous and with a play on gender.

Amélie Coster is an independent curator, performance programmer and producer.



She has worked at the Festival d'Avignon (1997-2000), at the Edna association - created by dancers and choreographers Boris Charmatz and Dimitri Chamblas - (2000-2003), at the Parc de La Villette (2003-2008) and at Vivarium Studio with Philippe Quesne (2009-2011). She then initiates and programmes projects at the crossroads of the visual and performing arts by developing her own structure, Casoar (2012).

She thus collaborates with numerous artists, institutions and private partners. She is co-curator with Dimitri Chamblas of the exhibition 3e scène - Opéra national de Paris / Fonds Hélène et Edouard Leclerc pour la Culture in 2016. She prepared with the curator Emilie Girard the exhibition On danse? presented at the MuCEM from January to May 2019. She has also designed an artistic programme aimed at very young children (0-3 years) for the Crèches de France group. She is currently collaborating on a documentary series on international choreographers, and on some of the actions carried out by PERU, a research laboratory on contemporary forms of hospitality.