NUMÉRO 0 et NUMÉRO 0 I

Marie-Caroline Hominal’s artistic practice involves dance, video, sculpture, drawing, text, and radio. Close to the field of performance art, she has presented her work in theatres, museums, and art galleries, as well as in unconventional venues such as hotel rooms, theatre dressing rooms, semi-trailer lorries, and building sites.

Numéro 0 and Numéro 0 I are two videos made with a new group of dancers as a prelude to a performance presented in the foyer of Pavillon ADC in 2023. One was shot at the Jardin Anglais and Place du Rhône in Geneva, where the protagonists, dressed in brightly coloured clothes, form a swirling mosaic driven by the rhythms of drums and guitar. The other uses the stairwell of the former HEAD building on Boulevard Helvétique as a kind of vertical stage. In ten quasi-mathematical sequences, incorporating the specific features of the architecture and freely inspired by Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase (1911), the bodies perform a series of almost mechanical choreographies in a chromatic atmosphere of mineral grey. These two contrasting parades respond to each other in their complementary dynamics.