I want to magnify their drift.
I would like to elucidate the relationship between the family with all that is unspoken, its brutality in the face of silence, and then the sensation of lacking, linked to absence, the disappearance of the father and mother figures and paradoxically to their rejection.
How one hides behind masks, how one becomes someone else. The idea of the mask, the simulacrum. Like children. Instinctive. Really work on instinct.
hapy child has been created 20th November 2008 at Le Quai/Open Arts/CNDC, Angers.
with support from the Ministère de la Culture et de la communication / DRAC des Pays de la Loire, the Département de Maine et Loire, the Ville d’Angers and Mécène & Loire.
happy child was performed at the Biennale de Venice 2017 with support from the Région des pays de la Loire in partnership with Institut français.