Les frontières sont des dessins

duo show Michael Rampa & Maya Rochat

Will we be able to contemplate together that which continues to grow despite human hostility?
By inviting an extract1 from FIRE OF EMOTIONS by performance artist Pamina de Coulon, Michael Rampa and Maya Rochat have created a new kind of acclimatisation garden. Les frontières sont des dessins is a story in which each of us takes stock of what separates us from our surroundings. Once this tenuous link has been rekindled, it's on the edge of a precipice that we can contemplate the heartbreak of having been cut off from what exists.
The work of these two Swiss visual artists models absence. Between the need to absolve ourselves of visual and auditory
and the celebration of slowness, the invisible is revealed in a delicate texture.
Michael Rampa and Maya Rochat offer us a break from contemporary frenzy, taking observation as their starting point. Where boredom and lack reign, the multiple factories of the imagination rise up and rush into a tête-à-tête with the richness of reality.
Images, of course. But above all, spaces to think outside, beyond. To detach ourselves from the flood of images. ‘That word first. Influx. Human flows, financial flows, migratory flows. Flux, like river, fluvial, to flow, to have a good flow. Flux, that word, with an x. ‘2 Unfolding, not the borders, but the flow of the drawing to get a better glimpse of the sweetness of lack.
A cartography where what becomes is not. Let's return to Pamina de Coulon's words: ‘For the moment, it's the palm trees that are on fire!

Make the revolution, set your imagination on fire.
1 The borders are drawings from the saga FIRE OF EMOTIONS
by Swiss performer Pamina de Coulon (1987). She practices
transdisciplinary research, which she then transforms into performances and spoken
spoken essays: ‘where it's a question of starting the world over again, at last.’
1 Marina Skalova, Exploration du flux, Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2018.