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Autistic machine, Unspeakable, Aporie. A psychological regression has taken place. How long has it been since I have spent a day at the back of the garden telling myself stories, interwearing them, constructing machines with only one purpose: to embellish my creations and my imagination? This regression must be pushed to its final paroxysm. I construct. The "infantile" trance allows for the creation of machines that define a conceptual space which is sensitive; one of reflection and of perception that awakes our senses. I create a twin for myself. He must express the strongest emotions of my personality; in other words my seduction, my sensitivity, my morbidness. Everything that I was able to bring up from deep down over the course of my different experiments. The machine becomes autistic. Autistic-Artistic machine Installation: -A life-size mannequin that represents me (wax, hair, clothes, latex, wood). - A motor + training mechanism. The spectator enters the piece and sees a person squatting down in a corner. He has a youthful look and a skateboard style: he wears baggy pants and the hood of his head up and down like he was autistic. He has a sickly smile. The atmosphere is so heavy and morbid that the spectator has no other choice but to leave the installation or to enter the world of the autistic machine. Definition Autistic: (from the Greek meaning ‘self’ or ‘oneself’). A term used in psychiatry to characterise a break with reality that consists of a patient’s complete withdrawal into his inner world of ghosts. Autism corresponds to a given trauma caused either by organic factors or by personal experiences. Most of the time it is associated to affective deficits that produce a morbid, narcissistic fixation. |
