Garaža Kamba

Pierre-Alexandre Savriacouty’s performance “ R*PE TRANSFER – Anything but my body ” is about a desire: to leave one’s own body in the moment of trauma to become wall, lamp, tree, tiny fragment of waste; anything, anything close by, except oneself. The mind is not only trying to survive: it attempts to transfer itself into objects, into architecture, into the materials around it. At once artist and muse, worshipper and altar, victim and executioner, the subject puts his body to the test and externalizes the intruder that inhabits him through a rite of passage where the Mesopotamian demon Pazuzu, the canopic jars of Egyptian embalmers, and the garage bands of the 2000s converge. Through the collision of body and light, cement, water and ash, sheets and sound, a scene of active transmutation takes shape – brutal and fragile at once. Serving as the anchor point of this exorcism ritual, the garage becomes the screaming resonance chamber of a bodily trauma: no peace is promised here, but part of the burden finds another place to fall.