
video 5mn [sequence
shot], 2000
π, shows
three naked women holding each other by the shoulders, standing in the
murky water of pond in the rain. During the entire film the only perceptible
movement is their breathing.
The three women have different body types wich do not tally with the
classical canon of beauty. What is more, their uncomfortable situation
and the rain put them in a tangible, earthbound time and place. The
departure point is the image of the three graces, young women representing
as a triangle the voluptuous youth. Reactiving this kind of image is
to give history painting a contemporary reality, it is experiencing
the image in reality.
After the first few seconds of «déjà vu» (a
phenomenon of recognition) we are caught up in the timeframe of the
image. Oddly enough, this seems to be slowed up. What seems to be slowed
up in the work is merely real time : it is raining, three young woman
are in a pond, holding each other by the shouldres and hips.