Substance

Substance 2021, digital video, 7m52s, Full HD, color, stereo sound. An elderly woman recounts the loss of a photograph that was particularly important to her. Her story is punctuated by diverted Aristotle's phrases, which recall the irruption of the choir in the ancient tragedy. A dialogue is thus produced, at times enigmatic, which seems to put contemporary history in relation to that of the 20th century. As a decor for this dialogue, aerial images of a virtual Paris, which nevertheless reveal very real Data Centers, hidden by an architecture that mimics them in the urban landscape.