La part de l'autreune transfiguration du banal

  1. Wu, Léa-Anne
Supervised by:
  1. Eliane Chiron Director

Defence university: Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Fecha de defensa: 11 December 2018

Committee:
  1. Marie-Hélène Tramus Chair
  2. Claire Lahuerta Secretary
  3. Martine Renouprez Committee member
  4. Maria Giovanna Petrillo Committee member

Type: Thesis

Abstract

This thesis is based on a practice of videography, editing and photography and explores the theme of intimacy. Its hypothesis is that the interrogated space of everyday life is identical with that of the exploration of intimates. The reflection is based on an analysis of the theoretical texts or artistic achievements by Gaston Bachelard, Roland Barthes, Henri Bergson Sophie Calle, Eliane Chiron, Gilles Deleuze, George Didi-Huberman, Mu Group, Pierre Huyghe, Maurice Merleau-Ponty or Agnès Varda, and relies on a plastic material that can crystallize and locate the movements and objects belonging to the rituals of everyday life. The first part explores the intimate sphere through family photos and a pictorial medium, the blue circle. The second part analyses the intimate sphere through images extracted from video films made following people or in private spaces. The third part is dedicated to the spaces travelled by the characters that I shadowed, that I walk when I walk and by the spectators within my installation. This thesis questions the in situ role of the body, in con-tact with places and situations, in the development of a narrative and poetic code in order to identify and establish the relations of reciprocity and interactions that bind my plastic material to the duration, the time and the space, the daily life that goes on and spreads. Through a game of mirrors, this work seeks to resonate our memory and that of the audience and hyper-multiplying the banality of everyday life that becomes extraordinary