A room of one's own - Installation de Raphaële Bezin

A room of one's own

image de l'oeuvre A room of one's own de Raphaële Bezin

De Raphaële Bezin, installation 2016

Diffusions
  • 2016 - Exhibition Panorama 18 au Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing de Tourcoing (FR)

It’s a 20-square-meter film. Wearing a virtual reality headset, the spectator enters a small room full of furniture extracted from film decors.

There is no one here and yet the place is inhabited, as the walls, curtains and carpets all show. In the headphones is the continuous murmur of dwelling, and occasional sound events. A whole cosmos is contained in this space which is subtly transformed, unbeknownst to the spectator who, seated in the center of the room, does not walk around but can gaze in every direction. This calm place could be the “room of one’s own” that, for Virginia Woolf, was essential for all women who want to write. It is “a quiet room or a sound-proof room.” These intimate spaces are built around solitude and admit of no external interruptions. And if this virtual room is invisible to anyone not wearing the headset, they can still enter, cross or leave it.
Their presence uncovers a second décor intrinsically linked to the first. What the presence of the Other reveals breaks the power that sustained the fiction constructed up to that point by this room.

Remerciements Thanks

Thanks to Cyril Teste, Daniel Dobbels and Madeleine Van Doren for their advice, William Hazel, Homero Gonzalez and Benjamin Vedrenne for their work, Massimiliano Simbula Christopher Gregorio, Sébastien Cabour, Cyprien Quairiat William Libersat for their expertise and thanks to Andrés Padilla Domene and my parents for their constant support.

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Images de l'oeuvre
    In situ - A room of one’s own
Processus de création
    Processus- A room of one's own
Partenaires
  • Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing

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