Automortrait,
installation video in situ de Claire Sauvaget,
Toulouse, France, 2009 -2014
Automortrait,
video installation of Claire Sauvaget
Toulouse, France, 2009 -2014
installation video in situ de Claire Sauvaget,
Toulouse, France, 2009 -2014
Automortrait,
video installation of Claire Sauvaget
Toulouse, France, 2009 -2014
AUTOMORTRAIT, installation in situ à l'occasion des 20 ans du festival d'arts plastiques de Carla-Bayle été 2014
projection vidéo sur polystyrène expansé sculpté, dimension variable
l'installation doit être installée précisément proche d'un lavabo, qui fait donc partie de l'oeuvre.
Crédit image : Claire Sauvaget
projection vidéo sur polystyrène expansé sculpté, dimension variable
l'installation doit être installée précisément proche d'un lavabo, qui fait donc partie de l'oeuvre.
Crédit image : Claire Sauvaget
Automortrait est une installation vidéo qui explore la première scène de l'installation vidéo "Do we need a ticket to travel ?"(Claire Sauvaget, 2009). Automortrait tente de cristalliser ce rapport étrange entre l'artiste et sa propre image dans le miroir de sa salle de bain dans une de ses expériences introspectives, vécues en Angleterre en 2009. Elle fixait le miroir, chaque matin avant de partir pour rejoindre l'université The Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (BIAD, Birmingham, RU). Ce miroir, a été le point de départ de l'oeuvre "Do we need a ticket to travel ?". De la même façon que la répétition d'un mot fait perdre son sens au mot, pour n'en retenir qu'une substance sonore, la fixation visuelle de son propre visage fait perdre l'identité : On est alors dans une expérience d'AutoMortrait.
Production : Association Rue des Arts
Partenariat : patch_work arts émergents
Résidences: 2014 au DOJO, Axat, puis à Carla Bayle
Exposition : 2014 Festival d'été de Carla-Bayle
Production : Association Rue des Arts
Partenariat : patch_work arts émergents
Résidences: 2014 au DOJO, Axat, puis à Carla Bayle
Exposition : 2014 Festival d'été de Carla-Bayle
from Claire Sauvaget on Vimeo.
*** English below ***
AUTOMORTRAIT, installation in situ in the frame of the 20th years of the fine art festival of Carla-Bayle, France, summer 2014.
Video projection on carved expanded polystyrene, variable dimension
This installation has to be set up precisely near a washbasin, which is included in this piece of art.
Picture copyright : Claire Sauvaget
Automortrait is a project of a video installation which explores the first scene of the video installation "Do we need a ticket to travel ?"(Claire Sauvaget, 2009).
Automortrait shows the strange relation between the artist and her own image in the miror of the bathroom, during one of her introspective experience, when she lived in England in 2009. She was starring at the miror, every morning before going to the university (Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, in Birmingham). This eery moment with the mirror was the starting point for the creation of "Do we need a ticket to travel ?". In the same way as the repetiton of a word removes the meaning of the word and keeps only the sound material, starring at his own face causes the lost of his identity : We are in the experience of "automortrait" (the word "Automortrait" is a neologism in french between the words "autoportrait" (self-portrait) and "mort" (death) ).
AUTOMORTRAIT, installation in situ in the frame of the 20th years of the fine art festival of Carla-Bayle, France, summer 2014.
Video projection on carved expanded polystyrene, variable dimension
This installation has to be set up precisely near a washbasin, which is included in this piece of art.
Picture copyright : Claire Sauvaget
Automortrait is a project of a video installation which explores the first scene of the video installation "Do we need a ticket to travel ?"(Claire Sauvaget, 2009).
Automortrait shows the strange relation between the artist and her own image in the miror of the bathroom, during one of her introspective experience, when she lived in England in 2009. She was starring at the miror, every morning before going to the university (Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, in Birmingham). This eery moment with the mirror was the starting point for the creation of "Do we need a ticket to travel ?". In the same way as the repetiton of a word removes the meaning of the word and keeps only the sound material, starring at his own face causes the lost of his identity : We are in the experience of "automortrait" (the word "Automortrait" is a neologism in french between the words "autoportrait" (self-portrait) and "mort" (death) ).
