celine trouillet
| Celine Trouillet, born in 1975, Colmar, France. Contact: C?line Trouillet 28, rue du Pi?mont des Vosges F - 67310 Flexbourg Phone: + 33 3 88 50 36 45 trouillet-celine@wanadoo.fr Biography (selective) 1982-1993 ? Academy of music (piano study), Colmar, France 2000 ? Higher National Diploma of Plastic Expression with the congratulations, Higher School of Decorative Arts, Strasbourg, France 2001 ? Certificate of intervening artist, Higher School of Decorative Arts, Strasbourg, France ? Prize for artistic creation, Regional Direction of the Cultural Affairs, Strasbourg, France since 2003 ? Member of Forum Itin?rant, association of art researchers, Strasbourg, France 2004 ? Prizewinning of the European Center of Artistic and Contemporary Actions, Strasbourg, France Incarnation of the language. Although the videotapes of C?line Trouillet (born in 1975 in Colmar, France) generally put in scene people in situation of actor, they are distinguished from the performances filmed by their mode of catch of sight and by the use of technical artifices audio-visual which cause a strong emotional intensity and which find their spring in the setting concerned joint of restrictions and sensory amplifications. Song constraines the witness to be approached a quiet monitor whose screen however presents the face of a young woman who seems to speak. It is necessary for him then to be provided with ear-phones to intend it to give an interpretation, outraged by deformations of its voice, of a song which it is alone to listen to in its original version with the means - it too! - ear-phones of a walkman. In Song n?3, it is not any more the sound which is amplified but the head and the top of the naked shoulders of a man which are increased by their projection on a broad screen in an obscure part. One sees his face in prey with a painful difficulty to articulate the words of a song which evokes on the contrary the ideal conditions of a peaceful existence. It is carried out whereas it is not a question as in the preceding case of a play of actor and an "artificial" deafness of the witness produced by a dumb image but of a real situation of physical handicap, this person not having indeed never heard the song of which it tests an infinite sorrow with only pronouncing the words. This "extreme situation" places the witness in an intense proximity which, cancelling by the effectiveness of its device any possibility of compassion and even with the risk of certain a faintness, aims at plunging it in the body experiment of its imaginary interlocutor and this confrontation constitutes the stake as much artistic than existential of works of C?line Trouillet. Engagement in plastic creation always was with some degree underlain by an unavowed dispute of the communication prevalence allotted to the language. But the need imposed by a handicap not only of reading on the lips but also developing a subtle intelligence of the attitudes, situations are coinciding extremely well with the new forms of creation which explore the expressive possibilities of the body very as much as the receptive capacities of the body of their public in order to cause in them an awakening widened of the human condition. As an example, an installation entitled Dance n?2 integrates a system diffusing an intense heat on the body of a witness placed at the medium of four projections moving and conditioned in a violent and torrid atmosphere. Another installation of C?line Trouillet, Inside/Outside n?1, realized with three screens and three sound sources an audio-visual immersion of the witness attending the real immersion of an actor in the water whose bubbles emitted by its mouth made visible its effort and the risk of drowning incurred to try to pronounce sounds under such conditions. The range of such a convergence on the body of a real physical situation and contemporary plastic invention exceeds the will to overcome a particular handicap by giving him a value symbolic system of a test of the danger, insulation, oppression, of a universally shared desire of contact. It can go as far as letting consider if not the assumption of a new sound body returning visible - as the last evoked project suggests it - at least that of a new sensitivity thanks to the modulations by work of space and the times offered to the witness. It is indeed under rather close conditions and especially from the same point of view as there is more than thirty years, Robert Wilson had, in a masterly work entitled The Deafman' S Glance (the glance of the deaf person), provided the foundations of a radically new theatrical esthetics and the start recognized like such. The art of C?line Trouillet, certainly more intimate but whose authenticity and invention are not less marked, could (with its English titles) maintain well with such an adventure some secret correspondences... Paul Gu?rin ? awards & exhibitionsExhibitions, videos (selective)2000 ? Non lieu n?1, video, Paris, France 2001 ? Body machine, Les Yeux de l?Ou?e, video, Epinal and Nancy, France ? 16th Vid?oformes, International Video and Multimedia Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, France ? 2nd video art night, Le Forum Itin?rant in collaboration with the Frac Alsace, Vid?o Les Beaux Jours and the Modern and Contemporary Art Museum of Geneva, Maillon-Wacken, Strasbourg, France ? From Strasbourg, Montgrand Gallery, gallery of the Art School, Marseille, France ? The body and senses, video, Maison de l'Image, Strasbourg, France ? Mulhouse 001, Exhibition Park of Mulhouse, in conjunction with the international Art Exhibit of Basel and in the promotion of a national art school diploma, Mulhouse, France 2003 ? Chut.../Pst!, school art gallery, Art School of Prag, Czechoslovakia ? 5th video art night, Le Forum Itin?rant, Maillon-Wacken, Strasbourg, France ? Video XXL, Night of French Video, Cluj and Bucarest, Roumania ? And if we sang?, Les Yeux de l?Ou?e in collaboration with the artistic association Plus Vite, video, Chateau-Salins, France 2004 ? 19th Vid?oformes, International Video and Multimedia Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, France ? Scratching, Tent Gallery, video, Rotterdam, Holland ? The month of the women, Le Forum Itin?rant, Maillon-Wacken, Strasbourg, France ? 2nd Kino im Fluss/Cin?fleuve, Festival of Itinerant Cinema, video, Saarbr?ck, Germany ? Le Forum Itin?rant, Contemporary Art Center Hors Champ, Strasbourg, France ? Songs and lyrics, Le Forum Itin?rant in collaboration with Apollonia European Artistic Exchanges, French Cultural Institute, video, Sofia, Bulgaria ? Songs and lyrics, Le Forum Itin?rant in collaboration with Apollonia European Artistic Exchanges, SKC Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia ? Videomedeja Festival, Festival of Video Art, Vid?o Les Beaux Jours and the European Center of Artistic and Contemporary Actions, Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro ? 1st contacts, video projection, Vid?o les Beaux Jours and the European Center of Artistic and Contemporary Actions, Higher School of Decorative Arts, Strasbourg, France ? 31th International Festival of Independent Film, special competition, Brussels, Belgium ? 1001 nights, 3rd edition, night urban scene, Strasbourg, France 2005 ? Prizewinner 2004, European Center of Artistic and Contemporary Actions, Strasbourg, France ? 20th Vid?oformes, International Video and Multimedia Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, France ? 12th International Festival of Video Art, Vid?o Les Beaux Jours, Casablanca, Morocco ? In private, Contemporary Art Center Aponia, Villiers-sur-Marne, France |  |
