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Forever Blur – Emma Tholot
Forever Blur is an installation in progress that explores our contemporary systems of belief, memory, and representation through the invention of a fictional ritual, situated within an expanded South.
Artist : Emma Tholot
Series : Forever Blur, 2025
Views of the exhibition by invitation of the Château de Servières at the Palais Longchamp, Marseille, and of the studio at Le Couvent.
Forever Blur is an installation in progress that explores our contemporary systems of belief, memory, and representation through the invention of a fictional ritual, situated within an expanded South.
A heterotopic, liminal, and profane space – at once backstage, sanctuary, and dressing room – the installation becomes the site of a dormant ritual, ready to be activated. Within it unfold still and moving images, costumes, textiles, objects, and wax sculptures, capable of bringing forth new protective mythologies.
The title draws on the iconography of 1950s cabarets and circuses, reinterpreted through television culture. It suggests an atmosphere suspended between the collective unconscious and individual imagination, like a dressing room where fiction and reality overlap.
Nourished by years of exploration into popular and religious rituals of the Mediterranean basin – carnivals, circuses, votive and pagan ceremonies, traveling theaters – this work enacts a shift : it no longer seeks to document or quote these proactives, but to move beyond them in order to develop a ritual to be performed anew.
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