S’il pleut alors je …
a poetic installation – walk through, read, listen, feel
Written by Pauline Jupin
(rul ned for et resumé på dansk)
“Parcourir un texte” (“to browse a text”) is a French expression which our installation applies in its primary sense.
Visitors are invited to follow a route marked out by a series of poems – a logbook of a kind – by a “self” after the departure of an “other.” Attempts to explore the intricacies and maneuverings of consciousness, perception and memory of this “self,” in dissolution, regression, struggle, redefinition.
To explore the effects of discord and of scrutiny on reality … To explore the fine mechanic of the inner self, to expose it.
A mechanic, as it happens, found again in the scenography and plastic images composing it. Getting to prolong reflections of these simple movements, often almost imperceptible, which change us fundamentally.
By moving about and interacting the wandering audience becomes a composite of the space-time of the poem. The route reinvents itself, unique each time.
Text: Pauline Jupin
Scenography*: Aneymone Wilhelm
Sound: Simon Cacheux
Voice: Milena Milanova
Translation: June von Essen (English) and Sarah Andersen (Danish)
Booklets illustrations: Catherine Boellinger
Photo-video : Yéro Djigo
*Thanks to : Paul Gallois, Caroline Juy, Karim Meftah, Frédéric Pavageau and props men and women of the Comedie Française. Matteo Laudato, Valerio Violo-Selitunnel and the construction team of Nørrebro Park Metro.
A project by the Collectif l’Enjeu a des Ailes in partnership with the French Institute of Denmark
“Installationen er opbygget omkring en poesisamling, som består af en snes tekster, der handler om et kærlighedsbrud og er skrevet som en logbog. Teksterne ledsages af en serie af ni tredimensionelle billeder, som er lavet af råt metal, træ, metal, klaverstrenge og små mekanismer, som publikum at sætte i bevægelse. Og som et ekko til disse ni billeders diskrete lyde vil publikum kunne høre en stemme, som reciterer digtene uden eftertryk og voldsomt digterisk sving for således på en vis måde at blotlægge dem.”
Institute Français Danemark hjemmesiden.
