For this performance, the nude artist enclosed in a black box is laid on a bed of white feathers; an arrow pierces through his flank.

The spectator watches through a loophole. During four hours, Yann Marussich, executes just one movement and sets out on a long voyage between the borders of stillness and movement. In an intense concentration, an extreme slowness, a soft and imperceptible movement, Yann Marussich loses himself between holding back and letting go. With Blessure, Yann Marussich opens spaces and gives time to the spectator to take a journey into the depths of their being.

« What I am looking for now is precisely what we don’t see walking down the street. In other words immobility. The only stillness that we could see is in the dead, but most often they are hidden from us. Death is hidden. As Léo Ferré said : stillness disturbs our century. » Y.M.

A new version (for one or two people), this time choreographed without the box and in a larger space, is also in reflection.

Conception and interpretation : Yann Marussich

Commission from the Rote Fabrik (Zürich)

Zürich co-production TDP Laboratory Poduction