Applause, 2021

      From May 1, 2021, OliveOlivier clapped every day (or almost every day) at 8:00 pm sharp for one minute on his doorstep, for one month.

     All these filmed sequences were edited raw. Only a two-second fade to black as a transition between each of them has been incorporated. Put together, they form a 29-minute video that presents only one thing - or almost only one thing.
     It is a simple movement, a universal gesture of recognition because it can be understood by everyone: applause.
    But this gesture, repetitive and spread out over such a long time, seems to be vain. Worse, when seen and heard, it becomes unbearable: how a gesture of pleasure, of thanks, of communion and sharing turns into a solitary nightmare...

    As is often the case in OliveOlivier's work, it is by changing the point of view (in this case "with delay") that things can appear in a new light, whether with words or other forms of language...