On the occasion of the Turin art week, we are happy to present the French artist Camille Llobet’s solo show, curated in collaboration with the Florence Loewy gallery in Paris. Risvolto that can be visited from 2 to 30 November, presents for the first time in Italy Camille Llobet’s research on the distance that separates language and its representation, the non-verbal expressions of communication and the substitutive ways of expressing emotions. Four videos and one on show at Recontemporary
the performance allows you to visualize how body movements, sounds and words can take on multiple meanings.

In the opera Majelich (2018), we witness the interpretation of an opera singer who plays live the first phonemes articulated by the artist’s daughter. The sounds that at first listen may appear meaningless, can be traced back to the genesis of the word.

Camille Llobet actually uses performance as a device for analyzing language codes. The video Voir ce qui est dit (2016), exemplifying his work, is a research on two antithetical worlds, music and silence. The artist stages a performance involving an orchestra conductor and a deaf performer, whose task is to translate the music that cannot be heard through sign language. Similarly, the video Faire la musique (2017) investigates body language, showing professional athletes who undergo specific mental training to reproduce the movements they perform during competitions. In this video, the artist relates gesture and memory, starting from the theory of mirror neurons, according to which thinking about an action or physically carrying out the action itself activates the same reactions in our brain. From the work Revers, created in the summer of last year during the Le Cyclop artistic residency in France, the performance that Camille Llobet will put on on the evening of November 1 on the occasion of the preview of the exhibition is born: the artist will participate in first person, for explore the plays of influence and synchronization between visual perception and its oral representation. On the same days as the inauguration of Risvolto, Camille Llobet in Turin also exhibits as part of the Artissima Telephone exhibition project scheduled from 1 to 3 November at the OGR – Officine Grandi Riparazioni.