Jisoo Yoo
Le plus ordinaire, le plus illusoire - Installation - 2023
presented as part of the exhibition Panorama 25
In this performative project, the artist performs on stage with reference to her own movements as projected in a virtual environment. There, her garment can be seen moving without a body, like a ghost. This virtual garment is connected to a motion capture suit worn by the performer in the theatre and moves with it.
The virtual garment and the performer's body are thus synchronised, giving rise to a choreography made up of everyday gestures, in two distinct spaces. The gestures driven by the performer are influenced by the computer-generated images on the wall. This creates a back and forth between the real and the virtual, tending to erode the border between the two types of reality. These two worlds coexist, communicate with and influence each other, and depend on each other to exist. In this project, the moving images can be understood as coming strictly from a digital culture entirely constructed by humans, or as a demonstration of the perceptual schemes that condition our way of thinking and apprehending reality.
Jisoo Yoo is a multidisciplinary artist born in South Korea in 1990. She graduated in 2018 from the École nationale supérieure d'arts de Paris-Cergy where she created projects, often performative, around the notions of visible and invisible borders and the displacement of identity. She is interested in all the barriers -- notions and forms -- inherited or erected by our received ideas. She creates a free poetic, political and critical space, far from normative identity assignments.
