Passer le temps

Passer le Temps (Passing time) at the Hangar à Bannanes in Nantes, upon invitation from the Frac des Pays de la Loire for the closing of the exhibition Nomad-ness

Passer le Temps is a four hours race that evolves from a sprint into a march for freedom. Constructed for the closing of a political exhibition about the nomadic times we live in.

There is the chase and the arms race.
The race for excellence, the race for life and death.
There is competition, the Peace Race, silent marches, the journey of the Olympic flame.
There are demonstrations, protests, social movements.
There are placards held high, flags, slogans, demands.

Passer le Temps is an invitation to bear witness. Bear witness to a race that is neither abstract nor surreal—a race without a winner or a prize, but one that shares in the agony of an exhibition.
Four hours of movement to trace a new guided path through the show.
A sprint of inertia that allows us to contemplate the movement of passing time. A constant lack of momentum in a race run out of breath. An exercise in pure nomad-ism.

With: Manon Maurios and Elisabeth Bardin, Aline Landreau, Lucie Goulas & Agnieszka Ryszkiewicz

From the series Animate in Slow Motion, initiated in 2009 upon invitation from the Beaux Arts Museum of Angers.

Images by Aude Guillot