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*Hollywood Baby, Alone by Mathilde Ganancia
Act I of an acid flash opera
Text by Géraldine Gourbe*
I hate the Tee-shirt
But I love the songs
And the music is liquid.[1]
It’s sticky, it’s hot. It seeps, it drips. We’re dripping, unraveling. The umpteenth story of a heatwave more real than dystopian—or dystopically real? The return of our overheated bodies, topped by our minds numbed by a tragically cartoonish news cycle? Absolutely not. Behind every reflection in Mathilde Ganancia’s exhibition at Café des Glaces, behind each droplet of condensation, one catches sight of old skins. Wrinkled skins pulled taut by a facelift or plumped up by a peeling… skins that once belonged to former stars. An expression, seemingly “modest,” that conceals a terrible violence and isolation, stemming from an essentializing form of punishment.
This scene, upstairs at the art center, that unfolds before our eyes could well be the resurfacing of Norma Desmond’s face—played by Gloria Swanson in Billy Wilder’s…
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*Hollywood Baby, Alone by Mathilde Ganancia
Act I of an acid flash opera
Text by Géraldine Gourbe*
I hate the Tee-shirt
But I love the songs
And the music is liquid.[1]
It’s sticky, it’s hot. It seeps, it drips. We’re dripping, unraveling. The umpteenth story of a heatwave more real than dystopian—or dystopically real? The return of our overheated bodies, topped by our minds numbed by a tragically cartoonish news cycle? Absolutely not. Behind every reflection in Mathilde Ganancia’s exhibition at Café des Glaces, behind each droplet of condensation, one catches sight of old skins. Wrinkled skins pulled taut by a facelift or plumped up by a peeling… skins that once belonged to former stars. An expression, seemingly “modest,” that conceals a terrible violence and isolation, stemming from an essentializing form of punishment.
This scene, upstairs at the art center, that unfolds before our eyes could well be the resurfacing of Norma Desmond’s face—played by Gloria Swanson in Billy Wilder’s…
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