WomenCinemakers, Special Edition

Women Cinemakers creative processes. German visual artist Gerhard Richter once underlined that "it is always only a matter of seeing: the physical act is unavoidable": how do you consider the relation between the abstract nature of the concepts that you explore in your artistic research and the physical aspect of your artistic research?

My research is double, i find openings in theorical readings -sociological researches- and in materials -visuals, auditive discoveries, paintings, colors, moving images and bodies- a result of being attentive and an observer. Each of us can reach it to make it grow inside. I found the answer in practicing. That’s what i do with dance and encountering this expression. It gives me a way to connect to this body memory and to the concrete reality of exchange and expression. When you find an element, a feeling, it is right to respect the apprehension of this notion, to live if, to take time to digest it. It can also be complementary to add the questioning, to abstract it and not being affraid to bring others answers to it, which can remind us and reconnect us with our proper condition. The human being is complex, we can consider to play with all these approachs. I think it is necessary to keep a margin of freedom, to keep at each step all the values and the morality we carry, always following what we feel are the right moves. It is important to frame the project, to understand the environnement we are evolving in; from there we can grow and progress spontaneously. Our perception leads the conclusion, and for it we are several.

David Le Breton says in La Sociologie du Corps - Sociology of the body – that the other contributes to draw the outline of our universe and to give to our body the social relief he