THEREFORE A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE, AND THEY SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH, MULTIMÉDIA INSTALLATION 2020
(tripod with phone holder with LED ring, smartphone, cardboard, fabric ...)
Dimensions : variables
In an illusory way, the installation lets believe in the presence of Brigitte Bardot naked behind a sheet and instinctively covets the spectators to look behind; where they find the impression of the bust of the actress, at the limit of her chest fixed to a tripod.
In front of her, an excerpt from a video borrowed from Youtube (a woman, Vida Movahed, mounted on an electrical cabinet, brandishing a stick on which and attached a white veil) in looped, without sound in a smartphone; on a tripod in the center of a luminous ring with the Iranian flag as case.
The assembly between the bed sheet and Brigitte Bardot is the reproduction of a scene from Roger Vadim’s film Et dieu créa la femme. Interest in the work Étant donné by Marcel Duchamp participated in the development of this piece (for the “theatrical” assemblage, the staging, the optical game, voyeurism, ...).
The installation questions the status of women, the culture of injunction and oppression of female bodies by aesthetic and religious diktats; the primary function of a woman, to be desirable or an object of desire ?
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