A performative proposal aimed at bringing inanimate objects to life through animated bodies.
Embodying a series of domestic dances, objects affected by and affecting human actions convey the emotions and gestures they carry in the manner of a one-object show*.
Garance Debert
“This piece is the result of different performances in which I systematically embodied a table, whether it was a turntable used in magic tricks or a mobile buffet table at an exhibition opening. In view of this posture objectifying my body, I wanted to give voice and movement to a series of figure-objects. The idea came to me from an alphabetical list of mobile furniture: a chair that moves, a shelf that runs out of breath, a book that reveals itself, a fork that looks at itself from behind a spoon, etc. Monologues with an internal and polymorphous construction, made of wood, screws, nails, gestures, hands, stories.
By adapting the question of the body’s memory to that of the object, I seek to disorient the gaze often directed at it. Humanising objects to reveal their emotions or interpreting objects to de-objectify the body.” Garance Debert
Garance Debert (she/her) is an artist based in Brussels with a background in visual and choreographic arts. Her practice combines performance, mime, dance, video and curation. Her work explores the body as an anti-nostalgic archival landscape. Through an anachronistic approach to movement, she subverts the codes of mime in order to question the emergence and disappearance of shared imaginaries.
Trained in classical and contemporary dance, she first obtained a DNSPD at the Cndc in Angers before joining the École de Recherche Graphique (Erg) in Brussels, where she obtained a master’s degree in visual arts specialising in performance with great distinction.
Her work has been presented in various artistic venues such as Le Grand Café Saint-Nazaire, Kiosk Gent, Wiels, Sb34, Project(ion) room and Le Lac. She also carries out curatorial projects around performance, such as L’Opéra Discret, an experimental laboratory and performative exhibition since 2022.
* “Objects preserve the impression of the living past, and in doing so, they create new impressions in the very fabric of the present.” In Sara Ahmed, Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others, Duke University Press, 2006.
Infos
| DATE | CONTENU |
|---|---|
| 2026/04/252130 |
25.04.2026 21:30 Studio Thor, Saint-Josse-ten-Noode Réservations |
Duration: 30 minutes