Xavier Le Roy
Self Unfinished in 105 screenshots
2020, 105 small-format photographs, screenshots taken every thirty seconds, from a video of the choreographic work Self Unfinished, 1998
Xavier Roy’s practice interrogates the relationship between performers and audiences, aiming to transform or reconfigure dichotomies of object and subject, animal and human, machine and human, nature and culture, public and private, formal and informal. Part of Le Roy’s research takes the form of works created specifically for gallery settings: production (2010-2911) developed with Marten Spangberg as part of the exhibition MOVE: Choreographing You; Rétrospective, produced for the Fondation Antoni Tapiès in Barcelona (2012); Untitled (2012) for the exhibition 12 Rooms, Titre Provisoire, 2015 created in Sydney for the John Kaldor Public Art Project, and For The Unfaithful Replica in collaboration with Scarlet Yu at CA2M in Madrid, 2016.