Audrey Cavélius: Visages

Visages plunges us into a dimension where space-time becomes the story of unresolved metamorphoses, but the very heart of a revolution.
In front of us is a naked woman whose face is invisible; we are shown her back, shoulders, thighs, buttocks, hands and hair. This nudity is canonical and fulfils all the criteria for assessing nudity.
While the body parts are recognisable and familiar, their movements do not correspond to any known language and the viewer cannot take any shortcuts of meaning, no synthesis, but rather an invitation to see what is happening in front of us, without distraction.
Sometimes the body becomes a face, the shoulders thus positioned as bulging eyes, the hair as a beard.
The temptation of pareidolia is there, but another dimension emerges; suddenly this body, so habitual, so «banal», becomes monstrous, a fantastic, disturbing, intriguing creature.
At a time when identities grow side by side, sometimes unconnected or without dialogue, Audrey Cavélius bets on a stimulating inner complexity, dissolving types, genres and labels and pushing them to dance together.