“Between the Joints, Language”, 2021.

(Exhibition: “Working on Sundays”, HAB Gallery, Nantes).

(…) Body and language have long been a continuum for me. Between the Joints, Langage is part of this dynamic. I’ve always been moved by the fact that a bone can break into two, three or even more, thanks to that ingenious invention of nature: articulation. For if the intention is to articulate dissenting lines, what better way, from a stable, linear structure, to break and move, with cartilage, muscles, tendons etc., meaning in all directions.

Are we so stupid as to think that a bone guarantees a straight line, and that a straight line guarantees the efficiency of a journey? (…) Every time the straight line breaks, whether it’s made of bone or some other rigidity, language rushes in. Do we call this freeing speech? Or do we call it freeing movement and running, jumping, dancing? (…)

Extract from the interview “Working on Sundays”, with Marie Dupas, (2021).