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After Grief, Florence Peake and Yahon Chang
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Lafayette Anticipations9 rue du Platre 75004 PARIS Lafayette Anticipations presents After Grief, a performance by Florence Peake and Yahon Chang, which places grief at the heart of its artistic practice.
In a delicate dialogue between painting and movement, the two artists create a four-handed composition in which the body, the material and the line interact. Through this exchange, After Grief explores the many dimensions of grief – personal, collective and global.
The artists move amidst semi-translucent veils of fabric, which serve both as a pictorial surface and a projection screen. Yahon Chang’s sweeping ink gestures meet Florence Peake’s somatic practice, in which the body acts as both a brush and a reservoir of memory. The drapery, resembling silk veils, accumulates traces – imprints, stains, breaths – and composes an image in constant transformation.
The performance is accompanied by a minimalist soundscape by Nicolas Becker, which highlights the silences between the gestures.
Conceived as a collective ritual, After Grief invites the audience to an experience of attentiveness and sharing. By making grief tangible, the work opens up the possibility of a form of healing, both individual and collective.
The paintings produced during the performance will then be exhibited in the Agora from 9 to 12 July, with free admission.
Credits:
Artists: Florence Peake and Yahon Chang
Soundscape: Nicolas Becker and Matthieu Gasnier
Curator: Francise Chang
Choreographic support: Eve Stainton
Producers: Caroline Smith and Eve Veglio-Huner
Production manager: Jim Tuck and Hung-Chun Hsieh