THE SLOWLY PROJECT. ART IS LONG, TIME IS SHORT

" Bien qu'on ait du coeur à l'ouvrage,
L'Art est long et le Temps est court."
Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

 

This work is one of the still-in-progress The Slowly Project series.
Art is short and Time is long has been performed in Art Basel on June 2004 and the video has been finished in July 2009.
The title comes from a Baudelaire Fleurs du Mal line : Bien qu'on ait du coeur à l'ouvrage, L'Art est long et le Temps est court.".(XI. Le Guignon)

My intention is to focalize on the concept of lenght as a definition of Art. The endless work of research, making, targeting and trying may be longer than one’s life and longer – and deeper - than social art world necessities and musts.
My interest is in visualizing this concept with my body creating two different levels of time.

The video, resulting from 3 days of performance and from 3 different cameraman’s shootings, has been build as a poetry and a ‘moving painting’.
I worked on the editing searching the way to give emotions, aesthetic pleasure and concept.
The video is in loop and I consider this work as a painting in motion to be seen on the wall or in a flat screen on the wall.

This kind of performance required many months of preparation and a long training to reach the control of the body and of each muscle, seeming to be fluid and like a 'slow motion' effect.