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From the Vosges mountains in France, teenagers are discussing and exchanging ideas. The floor is shared: the ease of some, the courage of others, push them to speak, while others listen and observe. These roles, performed "without thinking further", are at the heart of their conversations. Enjoying thirteen years of presence in this world, they tell us that sometimes "speaking says nothing." Two stories (one near, one far) of people their age whose words have been ignored intersect. They have spoken to try to make their realities exist, without finding an audience. If words can ‘be actions’, the silence with which words can be confronted also acts. The film offers a fragmentary narrative, generated from various conversations.

With drawing as her main practice, Marianne Mispelaëre produces and reproduces simple, precise and fleeting gestures, inspired by current and social events. What happens between us, within us, throughout the daily political challenge of living side by side? Her raw material comes from contact zones: encounters, interactions, transmissions, collaborations, borrowings, negotiations, confrontations. I listen to and observe social relations, language — what it does to its users, what the users do to it. She studyis the transformations and the structure of language to rethink its conventional forms. She moves and brings together bodies, languages, visual representations (images), other ways of saying, telling and thinking the close or distant world. Her work uses a variety of mediums : wall drawing, performative action, photographic image, video, film, text, typography, installation. They are often activated and interpretated, favouring in situ and ephemeral forms. Her work have been exhibit in France and Europe (Germany, Belgium, Romania...). It takes part of several public collections. https://www.mariannemispelaere.com