Autostop (1st step)
– performance

duration : approx. 45’
in French

Since the age of 15, Floriane Mésenge has been hitchhiking and meeting people. In the intimacy of the car, people speak with lightness and depth, as if anonymity allowed easier access to the essential. The artist keeps track of these encounters and for some time now, she has been inviting actors Maxime Gorbatchewsky and Jean-Daniel Piguet to join her on other journeys. On their return, the trio works on the basis of these experiences and the conversations they had in the cars.These evoke France’s yellow vest rallies, nuclear plant cooling, geopolitical conflicts, feminism, the appearance of Jesus in the clouds, the precariousness of the freelancers and also love. These stories then become like a modelling paste that the trio kneads, twists and unfolds to draw a kaleidoscopic portrait of today’s people. At far°, Autostop (first step) is presented in the form of a site-specific performance and a new video installation.

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