« Barricade »

To bring her film to a showroom, on the occasion of Documenta 14, Narimane Mari meets Stéphanie Marin. From the 10th of June to the 17th of September, inside the Ballhaus in Kassel, the former residence of Jerome Bonaparte, Napoleon's brother, the installation is likely to encounter otherness.

"To integrate a large unstable body, the spectator must advance by climbing inside a large stack and seek, in the midst of others, a space of oneself. The positions are multiple and all create a context of acoustic isolation within a sensitive cohabitation. The first image of the structure evokes the revolutionary barricade, constructed with arms in the urgency and in the energy of the struggle, on which one is supported to project itself in a film which is a true combat. Installed, the spectator feels responsible for his movements, his looks and his sharing, and integrates a narrative articulating the temporalities: the past, the present and the future. In the physical proximity of positions to be invented there is also the sensuality of the relations to the others which forge the identities of the South, and the materialism of the forms-refuges, flexible but firm, is more suitable for awakening consciences than for dispersed reverie . »Mathilde Roman