Elise Florenty & Marcel 罢眉谤办辞飞蝉办测: Inter-passion
From fable to farce, the exhibition Inter-passion by the artist and filmmaker duo Elise Florenty & Marcel 罢眉谤办辞飞蝉办测, presents the first act of a project which explore the rather not known but quite common relationship, 鈥渒in(d)ship鈥�, between human and cactus. By looking at the inter-relation or rather inter-passion of humans for this plant, i.e. how the cactus' form and materiality can affect human actions and passions, the artists have investigated the subversive potential of representations of this relationship. They reveal shifts of perspectives, roles and power-positions, through methods of mimicking, teaching and possessing. What is at stake here is a double mirroring in which the cactus is 鈥渉umanised鈥� and the human is 鈥渃actus-ised鈥�.
Driven by a tension between botamorphism and phytocentrism, the exhibition draws a 鈥渄erive鈥� into various extraordinary geographies (from the Yakushima Forest to the Sonoran Desert) and connects both different kinds of minor stories and global gestures.
On display is their most recent film Conversation with a Cactus, shot in Japan (2017, 45min), and other "narrative nuclei" 鈥� installations mixing moving image (Hdv, celluloid film) postcards and movable mechanisms 鈥� that extend rhetoric aspects and metaphoric signs present in the film's cosmology. Florenty & 罢眉谤办辞飞蝉办测鈥檚 narrative threads entangle discursive as well as sensual elements on a platform of fictional, documentary and performative modes of representation. The two artists focus on the verge of a visible world and its withdrawal, questioning the modern separation between the human and the non human, the animate and the inanimate, the verbal and the non verbal. Looking at mechanisms of survival and possible forms of resistance, it is through the figure of the marginal that they connect to a subterranean yet extraordinary community of thoughts and affects.
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From fable to farce, the exhibition Inter-passion by the artist and filmmaker duo Elise Florenty & Marcel 罢眉谤办辞飞蝉办测, presents the first act of a project which explore the rather not known but quite common relationship, 鈥渒in(d)ship鈥�, between human and cactus. By looking at the inter-relation or rather inter-passion of humans for this plant, i.e. how the cactus' form and materiality can affect human actions and passions, the artists have investigated the subversive potential of representations of this relationship. They reveal shifts of perspectives, roles and power-positions, through methods of mimicking, teaching and possessing. What is at stake here is a double mirroring in which the cactus is 鈥渉umanised鈥� and the human is 鈥渃actus-ised鈥�.
Driven by a tension between botamorphism and phytocentrism, the exhibition draws a 鈥渄erive鈥� into various extraordinary geographies (from the Yakushima Forest to the Sonoran Desert) and connects both different kinds of minor stories and global gestures.
On display is their most recent film Conversation with a Cactus, shot in Japan (2017, 45min), and other "narrative nuclei" 鈥� installations mixing moving image (Hdv, celluloid film) postcards and movable mechanisms 鈥� that extend rhetoric aspects and metaphoric signs present in the film's cosmology. Florenty & 罢眉谤办辞飞蝉办测鈥檚 narrative threads entangle discursive as well as sensual elements on a platform of fictional, documentary and performative modes of representation. The two artists focus on the verge of a visible world and its withdrawal, questioning the modern separation between the human and the non human, the animate and the inanimate, the verbal and the non verbal. Looking at mechanisms of survival and possible forms of resistance, it is through the figure of the marginal that they connect to a subterranean yet extraordinary community of thoughts and affects.
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