“I relax you by touching works (Je te relaxe en touchant des oeuvres)” by Caroline Delieutraz
Title:
- I relax you by touching works (Je te relaxe en touchant des oeuvres)
Artist(s) and People Involved:
Exhibiting Artist(s):
Symposium:
Creation Year:
- 2021
Medium:
- Video
Duration:
- 44’31”
Artist Statement:
Fusion of the Possible, Topographie de l’art, April 15 – June 15
Let me relax you by touching works of art convokes ASMR in order to experiment with post-internet artworks from the point of view of their manipulation and their power of relaxation. Caroline Delieutraz have entrusted works – hers and those of several artists – to Behind the Moons, the pseudonym of an ASMR artist who shares their videos with a large online community. Using different techniques specific to this practice, they explore their soothing potential.
By hijacking the classic prohibition of “touching artworks”, Let me relax you by touching works of art is a reaction to the anxiety-provoking context of the pandemic and the closing of exhibitions. The project plays with the constraints imposed by the current situation and puts the body and physical sensations back at the heart of the art experience in a way that is as strange as it is new.
Artists and works presented in the video:
Émilie Brout & Maxime Marion, Return of the Broken Screens, 2015
Gwendal Coulon, I lose followers everyday, ongoing series
Caroline Delieutraz in collaboration with Vincent Kimyon, Trolls Just Want To Have Fun, 2020
Carin Klonowski, HS, 2020 – ongoing
Fabien Mousse, artist created by Raphaël Bastide, Real Internet Art, 2012
Claire Williams, Spectrograms (50°36’35.7″N 3°23’34.3″E), since 2014
In collaboration with Behind The Moons A production by Studio 13/16 – Centre Pompidou Courtesy of gallery 22.48 m2
