Tainted Love, Not Yet Titled #8, Not Yet Titled #2, Sweat core pulls up tonic dreams

Emilie Pitoiset’s work deals with the resistance of bodies through dance, clubbing, sport, sexuality, money … all alienating symptoms and vehicles of fantasy. She is interested in the dance marathons of the Great Depression in the United States, a competition where couples danced for money for hours until they were exhausted. Analysing the movement of bodies through the political crises of the 20th and 21st centuries, she highlights the hardening of social and intimate relationships, a harbinger of our neoliberal era. She takes photographs of the period and modifies them by adding lines of force. She creates sculptures that revisit certain postures, represented by simple metal rods, and covers them with very contemporary customised clothing. On the wall, she composes giant captchas, which transform this language used for computer security into slogans encouraging the cult of the body (appearance, extreme sports) to the point of absurdity.