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installation, modeling clay, soundtrack, wooden console
160 x 250 x 25 cm

Go See the Beast consists of a series of modeling clay casts in various colors, accompanied by a soundtrack. Using modeling clay, Emmanuelle Vequeau created impressions of her face, her extremities, and the joints of her body. The orifices are blocked, and the limbs are extended by prosthetics that alter the body’s functions.

Displayed [on a wooden shelf], these objects take on an air of mystery, evoking a disturbing use of the body. The artist’s voice accompanies these accessories with the following phrase: “Tender skin with sparing movements, genitals also visible, finely downy on the inside, a very compact body, climbs nimbly, very skittish, frequents feeding troughs…” Between the text and the material, an ambiguity arises regarding the being invoked or to be transformed—somewhere between human and animal.”

Fanny Poussier, press kit for the exhibition Échos-Graphies