Projects

Via Crucis

« I remember that my mother would bring us every Sunday to church. Every Sunday, the same ritual. I would find myself sitting down, and most of all standing, for long minutes inside the catholic church of Morges. I was not really listening to what the preacher was saying, my attention was attracted by a series of small paintings that surrounded the nave of the church. They were the 14 scenes of the Stations of the Cross. Depending on where we were seated, I could see certain images closer. I spent my time constructing stories that were not always very biblical. »

Via Crucis is conceived as a double performance. At this point, it would be presented simultaneously in a staged version, with a conventional stage-public relation, and/or, in a more dispersed form, inscribed in the urban space.
This project is constructed by a sequence of images that guide the spectator from one point to the other of the story. The idea is neither a religious reconstitution nor a cynical approach to religion, but the interpretation of a symbol that represents both the end of a life and the totality of that life. The Stations of the Cross show the last instants of the life of Christ through a series of actions and encounters which allow us to reconstruct all the elements that brought him to his end.

The project inspires itself freely from these « action images », taking into account our Christian culture and my Catholic education, my fascination and rejection of it. It will be a contamination of the traditional iconography by an ordinary life and its different key moments. It will address the questions of failure, suffering, and disappearance.

The staged project, frontal, implies the continuous appearance and disappearance of elements and characters in enigmatic scenes that one can nonetheless relate to a precise sequence of the Stations of the Cross. The performance is composed of 14 main images, themselves constituted by multiple images, and variations of these. One should imagine a performance in which vision is continuously fuelled by new appearances and disappearances, in which the pace of images is intense and breathless.

The urban project addresses in a more intense manner the question of the path: one might imagine spectators either moving inside a space (open or closed) and confronting themselves to the 14 stations represented in this space. One might also envision the spectators travelling in a train, a tram, a metro or a boat, and witnessing, at the different stops, scenes referring to the Stations of the Cross.

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