Envoi, 2016 (30 hours)

Conceived during a month-long residency at L’Agence en Résidence and exhibited in a solo show in Bordeaux, Envoi is a durational performance and installation unfolding over 30 hours across five days. Named after a poem by Octavio Paz, the work stages a confrontation with idealism through architectural tension, technological intrusion, and embodied presence.

At the heart of the piece is a mirrored cube—polished, seductive, and sterile. A symbol of contemporary self-reflection, the cube echoes the structure of a peephole: a clean, spherical portal of surveillance, dividing inside from outside, private from public, subject from spectacle. Viewers are drawn to its surface, captivated by their own reflections, only to be confronted by something darker within.

Inside the cube: a body suspended between flesh and object. The artist appears distorted, fungal, raw. Her body is wired and inert, surrounded by wool, felt, and rotting ham—evoking butcher shops, battlefield debris, and domestic horror. It is at once grotesque and banal, familiar and alienating. The body is both victim and monument, trapped in the reverberations of technological violence and existential dread.

Envoi interrogates the boundaries of perception and complicity. The mirrors seduce and obscure, offering viewers the privilege of distance—the choice to turn away. But beneath the surface lies the "central horror of existence," one that cannot be unseen. As children laugh at their reflections outside the cube, the installation holds a mirror to collective denial and the unspeakable weight of being seen.