Reflecting parts is a video based on two antagonistic construction systems: a narrative system, the temporal and linear development of an action, of a story, and the repetition of it. The story remains framed within the duration of its repetition and its passing off starts to be meaningful not only through its development, but also through its repetition. The beginning of the narrative becomes enlightened by the continual linear loop and involves an interference between the notion of reality and dream. We will never be able to know if the character is imagining the events alone, or the contrary.
Edited on the principle of a chain reaction, Reflecting parts proposes the creation of a memory, the artificial memory of the main character. This would erase itself instantly at the end of every loop or would function as a short circuit.
The memory becomes more artificial through the televisual aspect of the image (very flat, without any relief nor any shadow), which is supported by the presence of a stereotyped character. This is precisely the proposition of the work: to create and transform a personal/social memory based on standard and cliché images.
Reflecting parts is a portrait. It presents the psychological development of a “blood sister”, character shown in the “Training Lounge” installation. Therefore this character (a hollow and detached shape) finds its identity by becoming a projection. A mirror of one’s desire, that of the guests and the viewer.
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