MARCY PETIT
(IKB) BODY PRINT INTO LANDSCAPE
PERFORMANCE, VIDEOS AND SOUNDS RECORDING, 09 MIN 44 SEC, 2019
SOUNDS RECORDING: BEATRIZ GIJON GIJON
21 pieces of mud with blue pigment
REALISED WITH THE SUPPORT OF AADK RESIDENCY PROGRAM - BLANCA, SPAIN
The video installation reflects on the trace of human body into landscape and organic material. On it, Marcy Petit uses different part of her own body to imprint objects.
The piece is a reference to Yves Klein's work Anthropometry, in which the artist used naked women as ‘human paintbrushes’, creating paintings that were results of elaborate performances in front of an audience. To Klein, the female figure was the canon of human proportion, an anthropometric symbol that he described as "the most concentrated expression of vital energy imaginable".
The same blue colour used by him (International Klein Blue IKB) is used by Marcy Petit as she becomes a human paintbrush too.
However, this video is also a critic of Klein’s action. In contrast to his work, this project is performed without any audience. By using her own body into a natural landscape and by leaving her imprint on natural objects, Marcy Petit is empowering herself as her own model and her own paintbrush.
The result might then no longer relate to Klein's concept of "the ideal" but to a self feminine empowerment.
