INFLATION

Documentary filmmaker and artist Anna Mancuso combines video art and performance in her artistic work. The space behind the window turns into a high-risk laboratory in which the stages of the experience, the story of the past assay and the observation of what remains answer each other.

Slowly but surely, with only muscle strength, the organic faces the architecture, the air pushes the boundaries of space.

The realization of the installation lasted several days. Anna Mancuso had brought inflatable objects, materials to make plaster, cameras, an air pump… She poured rectangular shapes. A bit later, once the material was dry, she slipped on her suit, her mask and her protective gloves. She eventually buckled down to the crucial and dangerous phase of her project :

The artwork functions as a sensual sensory stimulus : relaxing pleasure to passively attend a disaster foretold from the street.

What happened ? Posted in front of the window, facing the indelible stains of the past surrealist event, and thanks to the video archives broadcasted in this tiny exhibition space, you will see for yourself the extent of the damage. You will understand that « creating means destroying » and vice versa, and that failure is relative and daring is always rewarded.