Alice Goudon
Phoenix 93 - Film - 13min - 2020
presented as part of the exhibition Panorama 22
Film
A Pink Old Man tries to bring about the incarnation in the material world of a pink flamingo from an immaterial world. This pink flamingo is cloned so that it will ineluctably die among its fellow beings in the material world.
The computer-generated and filmed images that create the hybrid aesthetic of Phoenix 93 are made at once interdependent and incompatible by the narrative structure. A breach between an immaterial world and a material world is opened, long enough to allow the ideological image of modified life to take shape in material space, if only to be expelled from it afterwards. The exclusion of the incarnation of the immaterial in the material world is translated by the physical death of the materialised element. Through the symbolism of the failure of this passage, the idea is to question the relation to domination that one living being may have with another living being by objectifying it.
The ruin has pink feathers. It has stopped breathing. In the end it did not fly away, it collapsed, it became lifeless again and is now decomposing.
Alice Goudon
Alice Goudon studied at the Écoles de Beaux-Arts in Toulon and Marseille. She graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2018 and continued her studies at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains.
She creates narrative images. In her interdisciplinary artistic practice, she creates assemblages of symbols, colours, materials, forms, objects, bodies, and places. She adapts her work according to the selected medium, which enables her to collaborate on various projects as designer and stage designer.
Production
Acknowledgments
Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains. Éric Prigent, Guangli Liu, Elsa Forner Ordioni, Julie Ordioni, Cindy Coutant, Ugo Arsac, Pierre-Yves Boisramé, Faye Formisano, Massimiliano Simbula, Antoine Fontaine, Luc-Vincent Perche, Alain Terlutte, Claire Williams, Cédric Vernet, Liên Hoàng-Xuân, Cham Lavant, Cyprien Quairiat, François Bedhomme, Anaïs Caquant.
