A reflection on reintroducing slow gestures and techniques in the creation process, and on questioning the relationships between body, space and object through the prism of slowness. I chose concrete for its production and physical properties, such as the weight or the density, in an interaction with the user.
A reflection on reintroducing slow gestures and techniques in the creation process, and on questioning the relationships between body, space and object through the prism of slowness. I chose concrete for its production and physical properties, such as the weight or the density, in an interaction with the user.
29th September
To work on raw materials is to experience slowness within the production. Beyond quick gestures, prompt answers, it develops a hand-to-hand with the sustainable, the almost unmoving. (…)
6th November
I would like to translate slowness into a slow march. My production concentrates on the walk; on objects which interact with the foot and the act of walking. It results in hybrid elements – between a floor cover and a shoe, between set design and an object. (…)
5th March
I want to associate the object with a dancer. To make the object a dancer. Parallel presences. I wish to present an installation, in which different shapes suggest slow attitudes, slow movements. (…)
25th April
«The dangerousness of the pieces – their weight, their abrupt cut, their raw material – participate in the interspersing of the walk. The move becomes cautious and slow, punctuated by still sequences, which favour a perpetual reorganisation of the body. (…)
1st May
«My pieces of metal, wood, concrete are handling you. They hold you, impede you, make you give way. Capricious curves. Against you, with and anti you.
It is no longer a speech, it is material. The concrete is soft – you move your foot forward. The curve grasps you until breaking your stride. At a slow pace, you find yourself dancing.»
Extract from the Diary I will slow your step
Hélène Vergnes
