NOCES DE VERS

«It’s about a ritual. It could very well be a wedding. A strange and improbable wedding. A wedding outside of society. A cruel wedding. A wedding out of time. The union of immobile bodies. The union of human beings. A marriage beyond religion. An anti-social marriage. Between a valid and a disabled person. Between Yann Marussich and Kamil Guenatri. There is no pity to be had. Pity is a form of power over onathor, by believing ourselves to be superior to what is in front of us and which disturbs us. No one is superior ».
Yann Marussich

For Yann Marussich, immobility is an aesthetic choice: it has characterized his performances for over twenty years. Kamil Guenatri, on the other hand, did not choose it: due to an illness, he lost the use of his muscles. Immobility has thus become the starting point of his performances. The work resulting from their collaboration evokes the celebration of a unlikely wedding: the union of two immobile bodies in a sort of poetic ritual that the artists share with the public. Noces de Vers is a creation in a triptych form, each part is a performance in itself.



L'ACCEPTATION DE LA MORT - Part 3

After having sealed their union under a shower of rice, and then started to doubt, the bodies of Kamil Guenatri and Yann Marussich end up on a shroud of worms. Plunged in the dark, the obscure room allows two embraced bodies to be guessed, bathing in a pool of worms overhung by heating lamps. As if it were a breeding of worms and humans at the same time. The immobile performers are intertwined and their bodies are crossed by worms.

«Here we are less than insects or rather on the same reptilian level. We rot, they make us rot, the insects help us rot, we help insects to come to life and to be reborn. We are the cycle and we are abandoned to the cycle of life by the force of circumstances of life. Everyone can see what awaits them unless they want to die by fire, by explosion, by drowning, by hanging, by whatever, by work or by accident.

Photos © Sarah Maitrot