Faye Formisano
They Dream in My Bones / Insemnopedy II - Installation - 2021
presented as part of the exhibition Panorama 23
Installation
“Some we know to be dead even though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go through all the forms of life; other are hundreds of years old though they call themselves thirty-six» Virginia Woolf, Orlando, 1928
They Dream In My Bones is an installation-fiction relating the story of Roderick Norman, a researcher in “onirogenetics,” a science he himself founded, and that serves to extract the dreams from an unknown skeleton. Immersed in the mental space of R. Norman, reconstituted in the form of a textile installation comprising drawings and paintings, spectators are invited to view an immersive film in stereoscopic 360°. Conceived as a minimalist scientific fable in black and white, this VR film combining computer images and traditional film images transports us onto virtual veils to continue the metamorphosis of a skeleton at the limits of the human and of genders.
Dreams.
They dream in my bones. They dream in your bones. They dream in our bones. There are visions, engraved in me, fossilized, petrified. They never stop dreaming. Death can’t stop the visions.
How many dreams are there in me? How many genders are there in me? I used to be a man and a woman, before being born. I used to be a pikaïa, a bactery. So, how many species are there in me?
Faye Formisano
An artist, filmmaker and researcher, Faye Formisano lives and works between Paris and Lille. Insemnopedy I: The Dream of Victor F. (23’), experimental fiction (Panorama 21, curator: Jean-Hubert Martin; international selection Étrange Festival 2019; Les Utopiales 2019; International Festival Munich 2020), produced by Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains. Draper l’image: uses and functions of the veil as a manifestation of uncertain identities in fantastic cinema, creative doctorate at the Université de Lille 3 (CEAC, Lille) and at Le Fresnoy, supervised by Laurent Guido and co-supervised by filmmaker Bertrand Mandico.
Born in France in 1984, Faye Formisano presents figures that are part-phantom, part fantasy, moving around in a surreal world haunted by the fraying of the bond between humanity and its environment. Trained in textile design, she collaborates with couture houses and choreographers and put on two live shows and made several dance videos before producing her first short fiction film at Le Fresnoy.
