Our cities are undoubtedly the places where the greatest number of traces of our modes of existence are accumulating. However, How many times are we on the street, Without really seeing or hearing everything that plays there? To tickle our eyes and make them more curious to this and that which are around us, Isabelle Jonniaux sets out to explore our urban spaces. With its notebook, sound camera, and its irresistible curiosity for the details around us, She wanders in the city, Looking for all these battered things, these beings that we do not see, And who say much more about our lives than we imagine ...
Tags, trash cans, signs, Meetings ... so many extractions of reality, that the artist deploys and recompose on stage, To get us to rethink our relationships to space, to others, And reinvest in sharing our urban lifestyles. By being particularly interested in what drags in cities, to what is relegated to the margins, It engages in a fun and sensitive performance, treasure hunt, Inside a scenic installation in which the public is first invited to wander.
Poetics and quirky, I really like here is nourished exploration notes that Isabelle Jonniaux brings back from its urban excesses, but also intimate and dreamy narrations, reflexive texts, of philosophical thoughts, visual and sound montages ... the performance, conceived in close connection with the geographic environment of the scenes it invests, is a permanent re-creation, in situ. We are impatient to present this intensely alive and welcoming proposal to Varia, To open the doors of our theater on the city, closest to the territory and its inhabitants.