Captive
An installation by Romain Tardy
Soundscape by Before Tigers
Production: Biennale Chroniques, FWB, LDA Productions
Friche La Belle de Mai, Marseille, France, November 2022 — On tour
"Nightlife," in its contemporary sense, is often associated with a high-energy space of intense collective activity.
At the other end of the spectrum, the night also offers an opportunity to reconnect with one's own privacy. In this slower passage of time, now reclaimed by the solitary individual, we distance ourselves from the constant expectation to fill every minute and second of our day.
In a time marked by the increasing blurring of the boundaries between professional and personal spaces, where the pressure for productive use of time grows ever more intense—doesn't resting, or taking a moment for oneself, become a form of quiet defiance?
Through an installation of sleeping pods—the chambers used in Capsule hotels—into which the audience is invited to enter, the Captive project will offer an intimate face-to-face encounter with an audiovisual setup that is both close and eerily absent.
Pictures courtesy Hugo Bougouin & Grégoire Edouard