Mood Curves
Mood Curve(from Warm to Gray) Industrial ChoreographyGILLES TOUYARD as interpreted by the warmgrey agencyIn October 2009, the WARMGREY creative agency invited artist/choreographer Gilles Touyard to occupy their L’Espace d’en Bas for the length of an exhibition.A veritable “project room,” that space is as much a gallery as crossroads and work space for the protean, committed creative team. Seizing the circumstances inherent in that traffic, Gilles Touyard came up with an artistic action protocol that fits neatly into daily life at the agency, scripting, modifying and punctuating the most habitual of gestures by staff and visitors. That’s what led to this mood curve.The space is equipped with a simple apparatus made up of lengths of wood artfully arranged to form a kind of binary spatial/musical score. Each passerby is invited to use that structure to free themselves of items of clothing, hats, gloves or objects they’ve dug out of their pockets. Thus, over the course of the exhibition and depending on daily whims, a surprising ballet took shape — made up of silhouettes and the remnants of bodies that literally disappeared — like shadows of a tacit activity in progress. Perhaps mirroring the creative work that happens just upstairs…One of the project’s criteria was that each daily composition had to be photographed and Tale(s) is delighted to share the following slideshow of that small metaphysical circus.L’Espace d’En Bas, 2 rue Bleue, 75009 paris. warmgrey.fr n
