À nos vertiges

Emma Verbeke and Corentin Diana, two young artists from the CNAC national circus arts center, perform a physical duet in a constantly evolving space. They search for the verticals that will hold them upright and try to determine their relationship to a shifting ground, an unstable earth.

Their playground is a suspended wooden and metal object that is designed like a system of Russian dolls. It rises, splits, rolls, and swings, and with her aerial straps, Emma tends to escape into the air, to become inebriated with spirals and suspensions. These altering landscapes are both visual metaphors and the context of their relationship. It is a piece of land, a horizon, a ceiling, their gallery…

From balance to imbalance, with ardor and elegance, A Nos Vertiges [To Our Vertigo] never stops adapting its movements and interacting with instability. As a result, these two artists compose and recompose places, spaces, and time, both the meaning and the tenuous thread of their story, the rough sketches of their portrait…