à tous ces mots « qui sont dans trop de films, de chansons et de livres »
— Soundpiece that lasts the time you listen to it (loop, 12min04) / Performed and mixed by Eva De Marce
A love song whose lyrics we all know is repeated in a loop until exhaustion. The power and romantic beauty of the sentences found there gradually lose their meaning to become objects of consumption, which we can in turn say to our lovers. Inspired by my own love stories, I seek to reveal these narrative and fictional patterns influenced by films and love songs that we repeat in turn, to once again underline scenarios that are offered to us by the society and which are ultimately not always ours.
The soundpiece can be listened to, seated in a chair designed for the occasion, inspired by the “confident” armchairs which make two visitors face each other and perhaps invite a potential budding romance...
[Presented from Wednesday April 24 to Sunday June 30, 2024, within the exhibition “autohistorias”, a collective exhibition inspired by Gloria Anzaldúa, Chicana feminist theorist, activist and poet.]