Jade Jouvin

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On a platform, a virtual reality headset surrounded by four speakers. Opposite, coloured pencil drawings of varying dimensions hang on three walls (domestic interiors and figures). Despite its apparent abstraction, the aural ambience is reminiscent of the interior of a family home. Thanks to the drawings and what they hear, the audience can tell the story for itself.

If we try out the virtual reality, we discover a new key: entering a house, we pass through it, almost unnoticed. The soundtrack associated with the film, thanks to bone-conduction headphones, is superimposed on the collective listening of the speakers. Although we did not switch over, we do feel the presence of tension and strangeness: the scenes in this journey are banal, but the characters seem to be together without being together.

The installation Derrière chez moi is a performance of my feeling that “this past is here to stay” and invites us to reflect on the politics of memory when they are part of power relations.

Jade Jouvin

Jade Jouvin is a French visual artist born in 1999. A recent graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts in Dijon and trained in cartooning at the MOME in Budapest, she is developing a cross-disciplinary practice, blending performance, film and drawing. For her, life is a spectacle in itself: her family, her primary inspiration; the performance she puts on and makes others put on; the traces of collective culture; her drawings, which require physical concentration akin to performance. Jade Jouvin is working on an audiovisual project about time: getting members of her family to play their own roles in order to re-enact the family story. For example, the short film *ROMY quatre jours* made in 2024. This year, it’s a virtual reality animated film based on her use of coloured pencil on paper.

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