Catherine Contour : Autoportraits, 2001

27 November – 15 December, 2001

La Criée, center of contemporary art, Rennes

A different device was presented each week over 3 weeks:

Week 1

Water: basin occupying half of the space with floating seats

Week 2

Food: Pastries aligned on tables

Week 3

Horizontality: Daily progressive lowering of the ceiling by a rope mesh,

bubble wrap floor covered by a carpet

Catherine Contour is motivated by her desire to pursue the work of opening up space and the thought in dance, her journey as an artist-explorer is conceived as an ever-evolving search, consisting of hypotheses rather than principles.

The work itself is no longer a self-contained and finite universe. It is constantly being reviewed and rethought, based on its own observations: body memories, image memories. In fact, the work created has no limits, neither in time nor in space. Rather, it resembles a vast polymorphic « corpus » integrating places, experiences, participants and audience members simultaneously.

Laurence Louppe, Art-Press, n°281, 2002.

Contour? teased the critic Gérard Mayen, why, it’s just the opposite ! Someone has rarely passed through an experience that refuses to set its limits, boundaries and landmarks with such joyful obstinacy, porous fantasy and science at one’s finger-tips.

Gérard Mayen, Revue Mouvement ,  2007.