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Elodie Merland

Background Noises 

5th July to 12th July 2018

By using various experimental methods to spark meetings, drifting, inviting, I go on the hunt for possible places to take possession for a certain moment in time and to offer these spaces a new vision for contemplation, pointing out details and anecdotes. My approach sometimes has a conceptual-romantic appearance with an invitation to personally confront reality: the truth, the trivial, the insignificant, the uninteresting, the derisory. This requires the spectator to be attentive enough, to feel the time passing, to listen to the silence and to accept the waiting moment.

Poetically and not without humour, using; photography, video, installation, text and performance, I present written works followed by gestures. The results usually take the form of traces, passages through life or evidence of creation

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This work was created in response to an assault by a man on the artist on the bridge photographed in the work. Grabbing her and exposing himself. The crime was unreported like so many other cases were assault become background noises in society but so very loud in the victims' minds.  So many people in society voices are not heard or are silenced, normalising this behaviour and allowing violence to be of the everyday. 

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