Fond d’air
March 10–May 28, 2023
Cinéma Le Zola
From March 10 to May 28 2023, the IAC invites the artist Camille Llobet to invest all of its spaces with the Fond d’air exhibition.
Drawing together existing artworks and recent productions by Camille Llobet, the Fond d’air exhibition presents a deep dive into the heart of humanity. For over a decade now, the artist has been interested in the prosody of language: intonation, stress, or any other variations that language undergoes when it enters a form of orality. It is through sound, noise, as a vector at once of information and expression, that she encounters and conveys her subject. It is also from noise that the title of the exhibition derives: in the film industry, the “fond d’air” refers to an inhabited silence, the background noise inherent to every shooting location. Here, we hear a torrent in the distance, there, stones falling, the mountain trembling… all kinds of deictic elements that nonetheless give depth to silence.
Whether it is about analysing the contours of language or describing a landscape through sound, in Camille Llobet’s work it is often a question of noise as the imprint of the body and of movement. It is through the body, as it perceives and expresses, that she sketches the sensitive portrait of her subjects and performers. It is also through the body that the visitor broaches the exhibition space. Devised as volumes, the video works stem from experience.
Projections immerse us in the movements of the body, making attention to tiny or spontaneous gestures possible.
Revisited in the manner of a recording studio, the exhibition provides an original listening option: the visitor is taken through various sound textures, each one selected to embody the artwork. The artist thus imagines a full-scale experience and transposes the constraints previously confined to her shooting locations, bringing them into the exhibition space.
Revealed on the occasion of Fond d’air, the Pacheû project signals this change of scale and paradigm. Motivated up until now by the need to probe human perceptions and interpretations within a decontextualised framework, Camille Llobet situates her study for the first time in an alpine environment, for an immersion in matter: the lines and shifts of a milieu as grandiose as it is threatened.
Curator
Nathalie Ergino in collaboration with Sarah Caillet
