The Art of Wandering, or a Picture of Happiness

Common work. Triennale of Vendôme, 2015

Common work by Marie Losier and the "Schoolbag Gallery" (Fabrice Cotinat, David Legrand, and Henrique Martins-Duarte). The art of losing oneself where the image of happiness emerges above all as a collaboration between these artists, who have long known and esteemed one another without ever having had the opportunity to create a situation together. Because it is indeed a situation here — not an installation. For the Triennale de Vendôme, they envisioned, in the form of a filmed Happening on a special-effects set, the public creation of a scene from a film where formats, characters, figures, sets, and actions from their respective cinematic worlds intertwine. A mermaid, Madonna, Luther, Lucas Cranach, a Renaissance machine-man, shape-shifting beings — half-human, half-animal — a magician-musician, a gymnast-filmmaker, and an American film director from the 1920s: all will act, film, and be filmed live, using video systems and a 16mm camera. The cinema's discotheque will scatter these glittering fragments into a musical explosion of celluloid and analog-digital hybrids! Once this inaugural act is completed, they will open their Apollo Cinema to the Triennale’s public, screening a long series of their films throughout the exhibition — more than fifty films to discover!