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Hyper Ballad is an installation composed by two sculptures and a performance.

The presented volumes are shaped from contact’s object. A crashed motocycle’s seat elevated by steel supports and a pair of santiags boots with split leather and oxidized growths.

A video shows the installation activation. For 10 minutes Hyper Ballad fuses with a performer body. And from care and sensual gestures, they both link by their curves and carry a letter, with words resonating in the space.

The receiver of this letter stays unknown, but an ambiguity resides between love and hate. The words tune on a solemn and erotic atmosphere, and bond on a soundtrack mixing basses, melodies and silence.

The installation was shown in March 2024 during 100% L’expo, curated by Inès Goefroy at la Villette, Paris.

The performance was reactivated during the Jerk Off festival in April 2024, Adding a new voice dimension with auto-tuned live voices, in Boris Vian Auditorium of la grande halle de la Villette.

sculpture organique en acier
sculpture moto et projection vidéo
hyper ballad installation villette
Hyper Ballad Installation villette 4
paire de santiags western avec pique en acier
capture d'écran vidéo de la performance hyper ballad
capture d'écran vidéo de la performance hyper ballad
capture d'écran vidéo de la performance hyper ballad
capture d'écran vidéo de la performance hyper ballad
capture d'écran vidéo de la performance hyper ballad
capture d'écran vidéo de la performance hyper ballad
capture d'écran vidéo de la performance hyper ballad
capture d'écran vidéo de la performance hyper ballad
capture d'écran vidéo de la performance hyper ballad
capture d'écran vidéo de la performance hyper ballad

Oh hello you.
It’s been a while since we talked.
Maybe I’m poping this out of nowhere but,
I dont miss you, maybe I do, miss us.
But I think at some point it was meant to happen.
And maybe my seat will be useful to others .
But damn it feels good to bring silence,
to ask for silence, and to be heard.
I know you hate silence but I can finally hear myself think, and most importantly.
It’s the first time I don’t have to listen to your answers.
Because I know the circle is noisy and maybe it’s because we’ve been used to build out of noisiness.

Once somebody told me that this place give words value.
And maybe now,
I think differently.
But the animal’s noises that we make trying to reproduce the movement, hit the walls, then the floors the ceilings but always miss the goal.
Waiting for virgin cells to penetrate.
It goes from one point to an other without crossing my mind.
Maybe I get hit differently because the seat wasn’t made for me.

And through the acting, something is missing.
Maybe I do miss me ?
Maybe I missed the «I» in your sentence.
And out of this, what am I ?
Maybe too premature to permeate.
What do you think I am ?

Even if our movement pushed me out,
It’s with a step back,
That I stand again.
And perhaps this raspy place I love,
Isn’t made to be loved.
But I’ll cherish.

I don’t know why I called you.
I knew you’d never answer.
Even if you live thanks to your flight mode.
I need to feel the void and your echo.
It was so easy to get down.
But I’d like to stay.
In a way you brought me comfort.
Even if your weight bends my back.
I get used to comfort.