“We co-founded La Pieuvre in April 2018 because we wanted to collaborate together. We shared desires, aesthetics as well as a form of ethics and/or artistic philosophy, which prompted us to join forces to set up and carry out projects together. We named this association La Pieuvre because it is sprawling, proteiform, sensual, sensual, monstrous, strange, alien, aquatic, viscous... This symbol made sense because it echoed the multiple identity that we formed with Véronique. Our duo is based primarily on our friendly relationship and the artistic trust we have for each other. In addition to our partner, there are other people such as Mathieu Bonnafous, Jules Bourret or Coline Ploquin and others, with whom collectively, we are looking for creative spaces and hybrid languages between dance, music, performance, photography and video. As the various projects we undertake, we hope to maintain a form of authenticity, freedom and commitment in terms of our impression of the world and in what we seek to represent. La Pieuvre represents the place where we can experiment and learn, where we emancipate ourselves through our various creative attempts. In any case, we seek to produce and share content that is ultra-sensitive, independent and at the margin of dominant representation flows.” Rebecca and Véronique
“I am fascinated by the way small things behave. By going to visit the interstices, the movement seems capable of making visible and palpable the domain of the imperceptible. I connect this taste for micro movement with the desire to invite the interlocutor inside the lived body. I am attached to the principle enunciated by Gaston Bachelard in The Poetics of Space, imagination increases the values of reality. Choreographic research becomes a space for play and dialogue between presence, thought, emotion and gesture, everything that builds a state of body.” Rebecca Journo
The photography here is focused on the work of the nude self-portrait. A continuity of dance where the body reveals its own language. I started this practice simply with my phone, and then I discovered silver. I loved to feel this relationship with time and with the image changing. I felt like I had to capture a situation, an emotion. The places I choose are inspired by my childhood, as if I were trying to recall past moments to confront them with a new reality. And also to hope to capture a certain vulnerability, an intimacy. Mapping my body through photography in relation to the person I have been, taking stock of what I am in these spaces.” Véronique Lemonnier
