Lefebvre Zisswiller

Film

Language is a visible organic material. When detached from any emitting agency, this substance has the particularity of being transparent and being traversable. The language material is deployed in its own milieu and on its own scale, in a coming and going between different states: that of a magma or that of crystallisation with solid and hollow forms. In the course of this process, the fluid material lets out a prosody, which is constantly seeking to manifest, to pull free and define itself. The idea is to listen to this attempt at formulation. In order to have a tangible experience of language, we must also use an artificial intelligence that puts to work the parameters of the speaking or singing human voice, generating a prosody based on vocal recordings. The inexpressible part of language resonates here with plasticity – of the aural and the visual – like a performative movement that traverses the filmic object.

Lefebvre Zisswiller

Camille Zisswiller and Nicolas Lefebvre form an artistic duo. Between the fixed image and the video image, their work explores the means whereby individuals inhabit real or fictive environments. Conducive to shifts between different supports, their research results from a broadened dialogue which leads them to approach images by surprise in the interval between writing and what is formulated beyond language. Each of their projects takes up position in a specific milieu; territories on the margins in which images appear in secret, like vernacular chronicles. Holding qualifications from the École du Louvre (Paris), the Université de Strasbourg, and then HEAR (Strasbourg) and La Cambre (Brussels), they are together doing a post-diploma course at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains and taking part in creative residencies in Beijing (Xu Yuan Center), Venice (Architecture Biennale), Nijni Novgorod (Vyksa AIR),and Saint-Jans-Cappel (Villa Marguerite Yourcenar).

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