Le magasin de pulls (The Jumper Shop)
Performance and installation
The Jumper Shop (le magasin de pulls) is an exhibition, a performance, a shop and an opera.
The plot is based on Baudelaire's flaneur turning into a woman doing her shopping.
The shop soundtrack turns the space into a stage, while viewers become actors and/or clients.
The garments on sale are navy blue and brown jumpers. They are basics or classics representing quality and a timeless 'bourgeois' good taste.
Navy blue is one of the colours of power (police, gendarmerie, marine and business) and therefore looks good on everybody.
Brown jumpers require a brand and its narrative to become trendy.
The lighter the colour, the more bourgeois it becomes: the nude has its nuances.
The cardigans, jumpers and sweaters on display are (more or less) pre-loved, worn out, shrunk by the washing machine, with large and small holes and of different qualities.
Most of them come from les Puces de Montreuil, a flea market in the suburb of Paris soon to be taken down for Olympic sport competitions.
They operate as performative markers, like the French verb "porter" taking on different meanings depending on context:
"porter un message" (to convey a message), "porter le nom de son père ou de son mari" (to take one's father or husband name),
"porter une charge" (to carry a burden), "porter sa croix" (to bear one's cross),
"porter un personnage à l'écran" (to perform, to embody) "porter un coup" (to strike).
"Une voix qui porte" is a voice that carries well.
Installation views of the shop, 4 rue Pierre Sémard, Sète, July & August 2021
Made posssible by a grant from Mécènes du Sud
Below: happy curators/customers
some posts...
Below: in Art-o-Rama, Marseille, with Komplot, installation and polaroids, 2021,
In Komplot, Bruxelles, View from the outside (with Loic Vanderchtichelen and Olivier Foulon taking pictures) 2021.
Below: series of hand made jumpers, 'Art au Centre Brest', curated by Anne and Maela Bescond and Eva Vettier, 2021.
performance for the opening:
