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The third party
by Émilie Pitoiset
2014, 4′
Presented at VISIO – European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images – 4th edition
Courtesy the artist and Klemm’s, Berlin
In her films, Émilie Pitoiset produces unusual scenarios through an often noir and decadent aesthetic, which includes many references to the history of cinema and ballet. By manipulating reality and fiction, and using the aesthetics of “found footage”, in “The third party” the artist creates a surreal choreography in which the identity of the main characters is concealed behind black masks. The repetition of everyday actions, removed from their context, takes on new symbolic meanings and helps create a suspended and ambiguous atmosphere in which one can feel the disturbing presence of a dark power. The actors in the film are actually employees from a German bank in which the artist operated in the double role of film-maker and choreographer, subverting the rigid hierarchies that usually govern human relationships in that work sector.
Émilie Pitoiset lives and works in Paris. She produces artworks that activate a series of characters and fictions through an on-going narrative that deals with the exhibition as a format, including elements such as film and performance. Her work is infused by figures such as Woolf, Ackerman, Robbe-Grillet, Flaubert, Huysmans and Fassbinder, that she mirrors and leads astray into a subtle “eroticisation” of the every day life. She plays with uncanny scenarios with which she unfolds a surrealistic visual grammar which is both enigmatic, noir and decadent. Recent solo projects include “It’s all the gold that i have”, Klemm’s Gallery, Berlin; “The silent actions”, Frac Champagne Ardenne, Reims, and “You are late”. Ceremony in Les Eglises”, Chelles. Pitoiset has also participated in numerous group exhibitions in such museums as Witte de With, Centre National d’Art Moderne – Centre Georges Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo, Badischer Kunstverein, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Bielefeld Kunstverein, Museum Ostwall, Kadist Art Foundation. Her work is part of several collections including the Centre National d’Art Moderne – Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.