Aurélie Blanchette Dubois

What Exceeds, 2020, essai-fiction, 23min, HD numérique, couleur, son;

video assistant : Virginia Garra; music: Nelson
Schaub; performers: Lauren Agbayani, Elliott Blackstar Jaguarr, Phoebe-Lin Elnan, Doris Hardeman, Juliet Lakhdari, David
Sentkar et Gabriel Shield-Hanau;

Centre d’art contemporain, Geneva, CH

What Exceeds at Lemaniana, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève

What Exceeds is a 23 minutes short fiction film shown on a vertical screen. A group of young adults are portrayed who, deploying a sort of strategic withdrawal from their existential quest, have decided to become professional electicians. Recognizing the demands inherent in the dynamics of power and negotiation to defend themselves or exert any form of resistance, they create their community and engage in a practice of electrical wiring. Aurélie Blanchette Dubois' film is based around the desire to explore the connection of praxis and the mechanisms of definition of social, individual and collective units, and to experiment with the bonds of mutual dependence in a context of a constant flux of media and political discourses and a certain posture towards utopia. Flirting with the aesthetic codes of the fashion and music industry, the artist seeks to evoke the impression of a schizophrenic state between sincerity and cynicism, like the simultaneous imperatives of the dominant popular culture. For either the individual or the collective, the fiction asks what remains insoluble when contrasting conflicting needs : for control and liberation, confinement and evacuation.

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