Mathilde Couturier (Fr)

1 November 2019 City Sonic

Purr-hifi

This construction of imposing loudspeakers seems to produce a gentle breath. This is the purring of a cat. The starting point of the installation, made by a student of École Européenne Supérieure de L’Image de Poitiers is to use sound in a way to provide care and a way of calm. Care can be contradictory, just as the purr of a cat can communicate both pleasure and suffering.

This work is also a nod to Latin American sound systems, “tuned” into totem like animals. Here, the moment of relaxation remains in balance.

Partnership ESA Nord-Pas-de-Calais, ARTS², Transcultures, European pepinieres of creation (as part of the exchange project D’où parle-t-on ?).
Special thanks to Silvain Vanot & Julien Poidevin.

Biography

Mathilde Couturier is a young artist from the École Européenne Supérieure de l’Image de Poitiers. Her work is expressed through the union of several media: photography, photogrammetry, installation and sculpture, and integration of mechanical processes into motion. Originally from a rural and peasant environment, her creations explore and question our relationship to ‘living’. Her work is meant to be deciphered, through a body of complementary projects mixing different media and questions the way we view the Earth and its inhabitants: between industrial coldness and absurdity, poetics and care.

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