Projects

description: A set of rules governing behavior and language within a society; the act and manner of observing these conventions — this is the premise from which La Politesse departs. The subject arose during certain dinners, where the artist felt trapped in her own body: injunctions not to overdo it, not to eat too quickly, not to laugh too loudly. All these self-imposed rules - inherited through education as a young Martinican woman - ended up suffocating her. The project examines the injunctions we impose on ourselves and those transmitted through education - particularly as a woman. It explores the different facets of politeness: of the heart, the body, and the mind; and the constraining power tied to this injunction. It then asks what insolence — understood as audacity — can bring in terms of freedom: freedom to be, freedom to create, and freedom of expression.