For this addition to the Digressions series Virginie Yassef decided to discuss the process of adapting The Veldt with Mathieu Copeland and Philippe Quesne. This double interview shows an artist, a curator and a director debating dramatisation, the transition from exhibition to stage, the handling of sound, scenography, timing and music, and the search for a new methodology of work.
Since the 1990s Virginie Yassef has been exploring different media – video, painting, photography, sculpture – in a constant oscillation between physical and mental constructs, between science fiction and a game without rules that helps define a potential space for experiment, somewhere between the surface of reality and fantastical projection. In 2018 she adapted Ray Bradbury’s short story The Veldt as a play and presented its first version at La Ferme du Buisson.
Initiated in 2017 by Julie Pellegrin and the Centre for Contemporary Art team in collaboration with Captures éditions, Digressions is a series of interviews (bilingual French / English) that accompanies the programme. Through conversations with guest artists, the notebooks give behind the scenes access and bear witness to reflections, research, methodologies and sometimes the doubts and the trial and error that feed the working process. By giving a voice to artists, the entire collection brings out very singular voices that resonate with each other and explore shared questions around the performance and creation of exhibitions, the physical and political engagement and the decompartmentalization of disciplines.
For each issue, the colour of the cover paper is changed, with or without embossing, to distinguish the publication in relation to each artistic project. The inside pages are printed in one pantone tone and the switch to English language materializes in a double page image drawn from research work. Postcards from the exhibitions are printed and inserted randomly into the notebooks like bookmarks. Claire Moreux’s elegant and dynamic layout follows the meanders of reflection by inviting the reader to navigate, literally, through the text.
Published by Captures
Softcover
32 pages
215 x 135 mm
ISBN 9782955877852
