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The video installation “Les passant.e.s” translates to “passersby” in Turkish. With the phrase used in the title, the artist refers both to the mortal nature of humans and to people passing through a road or city, experiencing brief encounters.
The work is freely inspired by the conversations between Aristophanes and Diotima in Plato's Symposium. While attempting to respond to feminist concerns in a dual way, it tries to avoid the traps of essentialist philosophy. At the end of summer, in the midst of a Mayfly swarm that appears in the evenings and lives only for a few hours, an androgenous being emerges. This fictional character, like a spirit, dances among the flying insects, evoking the fragility of our existence. The variety of choreographed movements, represented by the color changes in the costume, suggests the “infinite diversity of modes of existence” beyond the “heteronormative” cultural codes mentioned by Paul B. Preciado.
The dancer engages in dialogue with the hidden figures of the feminine, masculine, and otherness within each of us. The transitions in sync with the metamorphoses of the character in the choreography place the fluidity of identity at the center of an unfinished movement.
This project has been supported by the Fondation des Artistes.