Figurative Furniture is a performative proposal that seeks to bring inanimate objects to life through animated bodies. Embodying a series of domestic dances, the affected objects—and those that affect human actions—recount, in the manner of a one-object show, the emotions and gestures they carry¹.

“This work developed out of a series of performances in which I systematically embodied a table, whether as a magician’s turning table or as a roaming vernissage buffet. In response to this posture that objectified my body, I felt the desire to give voice and movement to a series of object-figures. The idea came to me through an alphabet book of mobile furniture: a chair that grows emotional, a shelf that runs out of breath, a book that opens up, a fork that looks at itself through the back of the spoon, etc. Monologues of an interior and polymorphous construction, made of wood, screws, nails, gestures, hands, and stories. By adapting the question of bodily memory to that of the object, I seek to disorient the gaze usually cast upon it. To humanize objects so as to bring forth affects, or to interpret objects in order to de-objectify the body.” Garance Debert

Concept, performance & creation: Garance Debert. Outside eye / artistic feedback: Mallaury Scala. Sound creation: Bastienne Waultier. With the support of: Metarage (Garage 29) and Studio Thor