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Anatoms sonores
Neuzusammensetzung
Anatoms
Corps en suspens
Read Lips
Studies
The black project
Profiling Watermarks
Polyptyque
VOID Project
SOUND PERFORMANCES

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ANATOMS SONORES
Edition of 250 discs pressed on X-ray film
A tribute to bone records from the Soviet Union
2024






The Anatoms sonores series merges the main mediums of my artistic practice: photography and sound, both approached from an experimental angle.

In 1997, while working on my first large prints on X-ray film (Corps en suspens) in my Brooklyn studio, a musician of Russian origin told me about bootleg records engraved onto medical X-rays. Handcrafted in the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc after the Second World War, these records, often referred to as Roentgnizdat (now known in the West as Bone records or Ribs), were contributing to the distribution of unauthorised and dissident music.

The pieces presented in the exhibition take up this principle, this time combining my own reinterpretations of X-ray film, which I had previously used as a medium for positive printing (analogue prints) and as an instrument in my sound performances. In a mise en abyme, the piece/performance Microssillon X, centred on the vibrations of a large sheet of X-ray film (amplified by an electric massager and the soundboard of an upright piano), is thus engraved on the medium that generated it. The fragility of the medium, with its auditory qualities slightly altered after each playback, is captured here as a means of allowing the sound piece to evolve autonomously.

This project was done  with the support of the “Direction régionale des affaires culturelles (DRAC) des Pays de la Loire”. (Individual creation grant) and the Pays de la Loire region (Visual arts creation grant).

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Making-of the analog prints.