From Monday 23rd January
to Friday 3rd February 2006.

Madame T.
Installation - video piece
Mathias Delfau (photo, drawing, video), Malvina Majoux (texts and actors direction), Clarisse Robert (scenography) Thomas Robert (montage, audio spacialisation).

Free Admission

1 rue Gustave Goublier (façade vitrée) - 75010 Paris
Métro : Strasbourg Saint Denis, ou Chateau d'eau.

Madame T is an installation that shall be called video piece.
... an installation that gathers in a same space a black and white drawing on 330cm by 233cm serving as a scenery for text pined up on a wall and to five speakers placed in the space and also to a color video screened on a monitor.
Each of those constitutive elements bring a different point of view on the same story.
The piece Madame T is created to be diffused by this process. It presents itself under the form of an enigma that the viewer can solve via visuals hints that he can read or hear.
... A proposition set on the walker's path. It's created to catch his attention and bring him to come closer.
The drawing, by its size, its details and complexity cause to be interested by the bystander. The spatial setting of the sound track throws him at the very heart of the story. Alice's letters, pined up on the wall give him answers.
The film is a slow motion, a mien, a sight to things proximity that presents colors and details of objects outlined in black on the drawing.
The confrontation of different forms and information levels permits to be thrown in the intimacy of this story.
Then, after being interested then reassured, the bystander is slow down, he will be able to play with crossovers and ubiquity that allows him this process. He can also just wander to a more abstract vision, more rhythmic vision of the montage of different elements and exceptional associations that are its result.
... With actors performance, object scenery, background as an element and illustration of that story, the video piece as nevertheless neither a beginning or an end because it's looping some fifteen minutes. Viewers are free to embrasse the piece by one sight, going through this space or to stand by.
Madame T apartment as been digitally recreated via numerous photography and all objects that fill up the room. The movie is a wandering within the detailed image that is obtained. This is a kind of subjective visit to look for hints on Alice Thoersen.

Madame T is a group work by Mathias Delfau (pictures, drawing and video), Malvina Majoux (texts, actors direction), Clarisse Robert (scenography) and Thomas Robert (montage as audio spacialisation).

Madame T.'s voices are: Marc Segala, the kioskman. Janine Maume, the care-taker. Rémi Galliot, Alice Thoersen's father. Andrée Galliot, Alice Thoersen's father neighbor. Pascale Blaison, Ingrid. Claudine Biet, the backer. Julien Majoux, a customer. Johanne de Monès, a customer. Colette Delfau, Alice Thoersen. Estelle Renaud, one of Alice Thoersen's daughter. Maud Calmé, one of Alice Thoersen's daughter. Bénédicte Guichardon, doctor Kernac's assistant. Jean-Marie Fonbonne, Alice Thoersen's ex-husband. Bernard Benony, the policeman. Fabrizio Cenci, the garage owner. Olivier Salaün, the banker. Sophie Desbordes, the banker's secretary. Patrick Guérineau, the ornithology department manager. . Jean-André Senailles, the consular agent. Boyan Anastassov, Piotr Alléon.

Mathias Delfau (1968) is doing in the same time a graphic artist, plastician, video artist work.
1988-1994 he studied architecture environment aesthetics to the Arts Appliqués of Paris and painting at Beaux-Arts of Paris.
1992 - 1995 he stages for three images manipulation performances.
1994 - 2005 he continues his painting work with digital video and realizes numerous animation movies.
1996 - 2003 he works as a part-time in a graphic agency.
2000 - 2005 he collaborates with an artists group, Accèes Local, which goal is to replace the artistic research in a social context.
2003 - 2005 he works as an independant plastic graphist. 2004 - 2005 he places video in space with Madame T. installation and places within a vey same installation still and motion.

Malvina Majoux (1972) she studied French and Russian literature in Paris and Saint Petersbourg. Theater author, she writes also texts exclusively done for public readings.
- La Déposée, theater piece, in "Pièces d'auteur en 1 acte", Crater editions, 2003. ISBN 2-911574-50-8
- Le Fil de l'Eau, theater piece, Lafontaine editions , 2004. ISBN: 2-907846-74-4, (DMDTS for creation support scholarship, French Culture Ministry, March 2004)
- Sketch creation on www.antidata.org
- La Montgolfière Empaillée, theater piece in proofreading processing (CNL support for writing scholarship, May 2004).

Clarisse Robert (1972) is key decorator. She creates, realizes small fiction spaces for cinema and TV. Her work can be presented in "Mon Petit Frère" by Anne Barbé, "Tea Time" and "Marie sans adieu" by Philippe Larue, "Le bal perdu" by Alfredo Perez. Thanks to this artistic eduction at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts de Cergy (1993/1998), she obtained diplomas, DNAP and DNSEP in painting section, she thinks wearings and accessories in space as a forms and colors brushed on a camera plan.

Thomas Robert (1972) ) is sound editor, since 1997, for cinema and documentary. He also worked on "Satin Rouge" by Raja Amari, "Á La Rencontre Du Dragon Hélène Angel", "Je Suis Un Assasin" by Thomas Vincent. "Mon Travail, C'est Capital" a documentary by M-P Berta, L. Salters and R. Girardot… In 1991, he realizes a short movie, "Le Vertige", he turned his studies toward a much more plastic expression (1993/1996, educated at the École National d'Arts de Cergy in the photography and painting department) Reaserching a sound and image relation, he's working punctually on artistic projects with Mathias Delfau (sound editing and video editing of a website but also an exhibition "Action Rédaction" with the artist group Accès Local).