Adam & Eve

Two vertical screens, the original couple, Adam and Eve, bound by a red sheet set in the gorgeous landscape of Tuscany. During 8 minutes and 43 seconds, Agnès Guillaume offers a reflection on symmetry for this vision of the couple, through mirroring, parallels or concomitance. The man and the woman, wearing the colors of Italian renaissance, each in his screen, meet, confront, going through pathways that diverge and yet converge. Are they meeting? Are they merging? Separating, vanishing?

“What do we find in Adam et Eve? The choice of a specific style, first of all, common to all of Agnès Guillaume’s videos: allusive, metaphorical, never realistic, but nevertheless connected to an existential reality. The choice, also, of a mode of writing that willingly favours the multiplicity of visual and sound inputs as well as a rhythm that takes its time to present things. There is no hurry, each image comes at its own pace. And finally, a willingness to suggest.”

Paul Ardenne