Memory and Becoming Every human being, born at present, carries in its cells, the ever-growing memory of our history, of our humanity. We function across strata constituted by sedimentations, by accumulations, as a series of plateaus that we penetrate vertically in order to exist. The first strata echo the time when our micro organisms came out of the water; others recall the time when we crawled, or when we enjoyed massacres and sensual delights. Our history is inscribed in our body and constitutes the memories we are made of. This is why every present is extraordinary, ambitious and dangerous at the same time, for it is what our future is made of, everyone’s future. We are building the memories on which our futures will rise.
Fabrice Lambert
“Together, part”
Through this performance, Fabrice Lambert wanted to reconsider the body’s weight, to come back on its tangible materiality. This “reading” of a being through its physical intensity, provokes a breaks through time’s linearity – it imposes a realization of the changes induced by a sudden turn, by the crossing of a frontier. The audience’s observation becomes the memory of this breakthrough. By a growing amplification of the process of differentiation, territories, prints and traces are revealed, as a diffuse memory emerges. Each presence completes, follows, takes over from the other and imposes a common resistance. It will experiment what living in someone else’s space means, and find the marks of its presence. Differences and similarities will quickly be abolished. Within each trajectory, the other will be found; each weighted gesture will acquire a singular reality.
Gilles Amalvi