Céline Pujol
FRANCE
Céline Pujol is a multifaceted artist. After studying Art History and then Cinema Aesthetics at the Sorbonne, Céline moved on to theater and trained in various prestigious courses such as the Cours Florent, Pygmalion or with Jack Waltzer of the Actor Studio. She joined the 'Il Corpo del Teatro' theater company, inspired by Grotowski's method which reconnects with the deepest essence and allows one to rediscover the archaic and original impulse. Because body theater is based on a subtle and organic movement when expressing emotion, it is naturally through contemporary dance that Céline pursues her research and exploration with choreographers such as Dimitri Chamblas, Anna Wehsarg from the Pina Bausch or Nadia Vadoori-Gauthier company, who originated the authentic movement. After having performed at the Festival d'Avignon, at the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris, and at Luma in Arles, she is now involved in more personal projects presented in various contemporary art galleries and festivals. Author of performances and short films with the intimate as a recurrent subject, she expresses a vital and sensitive impulse, using body/voice, dance/poetry, reinterpreted here through the photographic medium.
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ON MY MOUTH
ON MY MOUTH
The mouth as the entrance to desire, pleasure, outbursts and laughter, or as the receptacle for a kiss.
Food and words are brought to the mouth. Closed mouth, mouth to mouth, word for word, delicately brushed or gobbled up; words or delicious food give way to a discussion between oneself and the body. The psychoanalytical studies of Freud and Lacan have drawn a parallel between sexuality and food. Their theory includes the notion of the 'scopic drive', which implies the pleasure of looking and arouses the desire to see, embodied here by a symbolic, almost totemic mouth, magnifying orality.
A mouth without a face, alive and passionate, which observes us without us being able to pierce its gaze, nor identify what we recognise. It questions us about the place given to the need, as well as the experienced pleasure.
Our contemporary society, imbued with seduction and impulsivity, translates a certain excess in hyper-individualism. The mouth alone, which speaks, laughs, swallows and kisses, is a powerful incarnation of this, and also appears as the main character of the expression of an archaic and primordial movement. The isolated process of the mouth becoming a subject questions the position that can be given to the so-called 'object' woman. Everyone can devour with their eyes, feed themselves according to abundance, and also have the feeling of being devoured by the other. Filling oneself absolutely, or being prey to the feeling of inexorable emptiness.