Aubervilliers, France
Let's PLAY! platform
From transmission to creation
The doors to this new creation are opening with an experiment in transmission. Pipa (conceived in 2023-2024), whose key theme is the making of kites, is a workshop project aimed specifically at children, combining a discovery of the body with the specific work of materials. Created in collaboration with Ateliers Médicis, this transmission workshop consolidates long-held intuitions and convictions that artistic creation is a fundamental lever for emancipation, that our society is a place of commonality, that it should be open to everyone, regardless of origin, religion, social condition or age, and that it has a major role to play in the necessary and urgent transformation of our lifestyles.
It's with a kind of naive obviousness that I also want to address this creation to young audiences. In this age of AI and screens, of speed and impatience, of destructive consumerism, it seems essential to strengthen the poetic link we have with things and with the natural powers of the world. We urgently need to reverse the bonds of domination, exploitation and predation as a way of living with the non-human. And it is the new generations who will be able to do otherwise. We need to clear new poetic paths so that the youngest among us can in turn open up more desirable horizons.
Wind is a primary force and an inexhaustible source of energy, a phenomenon linked to marine currents, the sun and the rotation of the earth. But it is also a daily presence that knows no borders, a common good that is impossible to privatise. By turning the meeting of a gesture of flight and a poetic word into a moment of contemplation and sensitive reflection, this show aims to bear witness to an unshakeable conviction, that of the transformative power of beauty.
