Avant l’orage
Interview contribution on Sun & Sea to the exhibition catalogue, Collection Pinault/Bourse de Commerce, 2023
Excerpt from the interview:
The worst enemy to reparative action is nihilism. If we think about spiritual, ecological, and cultural traditions the world over, we find time and time again a strong connection between spirit – divinity, if you like – and love. Simultaneously, we realise that the competition model of evolution is incomplete and inaccurate. So in a way, it’s both complicated and terribly simple: we need to fall in love with the planet, with all humans and with more-than-humans too. Art is a great conduit for embodying these complexities, and I firmly believe that the making of Sun & Sea was infused with the conditions of its making very profoundly: in Venice, Sun & Sea was created and produced by five women, with a total of seven children, between the ages of (at the time) one and a half and nine: there was chaos, laughter, and a great deal of generosity. I am still convinced that some of this spirit travels up to its audience with every performance.