Élizabeth Saint-Jalmes presents ABRI TROU, a giant immersive inflatable space she has imagined as a theater of games and possibilities. Over the course of a weekend, she presents a “Curoscope” performance installation, conceived as a total precarious work of art, bringing into play ways of approaching doing and doing together in dialogue with other living beings.
A string of six inflatable structures sewn independently in situ and then combined, the creation ABRI TROU invests the 450m2 of the Générateur. Élizabeth Saint-Jalmes deploys a spatial and sculptural vision with this construction. ABRI TROU appears as a vast body in which she invites the public to physically inscribe themselves. Walking a tightrope between concrete and imaginary space, it offers its womb to exploration and metamorphosis. Having created a tiny colored skylight concealed within the 1000m3 of ABRI TROU, she proposes a single point of view on the exterior of the object, a reversal of the relationship to space.
ABRI TROU, as a space to be invested, is endowed with a manifesto that defines its field of possibilities and constraints.
ABRI TROU – ESPACE MANIFESTE – POSSIBLES ET CONTRAINTES
His possibilities are plastic: Abri Trou is white, habitable, lightable, livable
His possibilities are sonic: Abri Trou resonates differently depending on the density of its inflation
His constraints are temporal: Abri Trou likes duration and waits to be occupied by our presences and voices
His possibilities are physical: Abri Trou invites interaction via his soft, slippery morphology
His possibilities are creative: Abri Trou proposes to experience presence through experience
His possibilities are symbolic: Abri Trou summons the imaginary, the abstract, projections
His possibles are fluctuating: Abri Trou is a heterotopia
His constraints are spatial: Abri Trou is a territory, a raw space impossible to occult
Its constraints are social: Abri Trou provokes cohabitation and exchanges
His constraints are spiritual: Abri Trou invites you to take a stand
His constraints are reversible: Abri Trou exposes what he hides and hides what he exposes
