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"Le Terrier (2)" is video freely inspired by the unfinished short story of Kafka that tells the story of someone going insane after having obsessionally dug his hole, and who persuades himself that he's threatened by the arrival of someone else. "Le Terrier (2)" deals with this shift moment when the familiar structure, supposed to shelter, becomes suddenly a threat : a woman and a man wander in a street where we can't tell if the houses are being built or have been destroyed by an anonymous disaster. In this crossing of a new city of the Parisian suburbs, the housing loses its primary function, since we don't know anymore if it accomodates or threaten, and if it forces to be on one's guard.

Elsa Fauconnet is a french artist, born in the parisian suburbs in 1984. After obtaining a Bachelor of Art at the "ENSAV - La Cambre" of Brussels, she gets a diploma from the "Ecole des Beaux-Arts" of Paris, with distinction from the jury. From engraving, video and photography, she questions the supposed pictures of the real. At first, she works essentially with images extracted from the medias. She appropriates these images that tell our contemporary history, and plays with rewriting History and questioning its conceptual substance. Progressively, her own images (the wall in Palestine, a city being built in France...)are reinstated in fictions. These pieces of real anchored to a historic reality reveal themselves as relics. They are concrete facts and allow at the same time the start of possible fictions, in the interpretation we give of it. Playing with several styles, Elsa Fauconnet's films create a trouble that reveals the difficulty of placing oneself into a story, a place, the real and its representation. In her work, there is also talk of territories, of borders, of dwellings, of the search of a home... She plays with strangeness : in german, the same word stands for stranger and stranger. Would the strange be the aesthetic corollary of the stranger ? "What interests me in the strange and the strangeness concepts is that they both result in casting doubt on every familiar reality, creating a favorable moment to detachment." Using strangeness in order to allow a new observation and a new emergence of the things.