Vague interior wave - Presse

(...) For Vague Intérieur Vague, - hence the title, I was interested in the uncontrollable sensations that come in waves, when one is confronted with a sound, a situation, a gesture, a smell, etc., and that will suddenly revive an emotion or sensations. This type of reaction is not always explicable and is often related to the unconscious. Our behavior and the way we react to what surrounds us is linked to our heritage and our personal history. It is this unconscious that interests me here, the waves of sensations, emotions, images, which come and go. These sensations that overwhelm us are sometimes impossible to name or share. For Vague Intérieur Vague, the challenge was therefore to find a way to bring out images and sensations while having enough projections to restore them and share them with others. (...)

"A multicolored headless woman, a fairy haloed in black transparency, a monkey man, a polyrhythmic Amazon, a distant warrior, an intense dragonfly. They emerge in turn from nowhere or from our dreams (...) Their sky is occupied by a moving enigma, a monster, an animal, a machine, which moves with them and offers itself, to them as well as to the spectator, to all the metamorphoses: playful, threatening, enveloping or crushing, solemn or grotesque, absurd or necessary: it welcomes our images, engulfs them or makes them swell in all the space (...)

It is a question of reaffirming the equality of all in front of the forces of the imagination, the inexhaustible and deeply shareable resource of the sensitive, and the repairing powers of the dream."

True to form, Julie Nioche uses here, as in NOS SOLITUDES, suspensions. If they are not cables and weights, in this show she has chosen pipes hanging from the ceiling and spitting smoke. This strange chandelier looks like a five-legged spider, giant boas or sometimes elephant trunks. The illusion of this hallucinatory world populated by unreal creatures is reinforced by a play of light skilfully orchestrated by Yves Godin. The projectors diffuse white, yellow, green, blue or orange halos, depending on the atmosphere she wishes to project.

The performance gives off a wild, almost tribal energy, to which Julie Nioche has accustomed us. And as usual, she seems to have succeeded in hitting the mark.