I like this video because it feels like watching someone think out loud with their hands—messy, ritualistic, and totally unpolished. John Bock turns art into a bodily performance, and that kind of unhinged sincerity is way more honest to me than anything clean or explained. It’s funny, uncomfortable, and obsessive, which is where real energy and real cinema always start for me.
I came across this video and it stuck with me because it’s just a body moving through the world with no protection, no performance polish. Watching Pope.L crawl turns vulnerability into something confrontational, like he’s forcing the street to acknowledge him. I’m drawn to that kind of work where endurance, embarrassment, and reality all collapse into something quietly brutal.
We spoke briefly then but met properly right after, at her former residency studio in Villa Belleville.Recent graduate from ENSAD Paris and a current resident at Poush in Paris, Albouy fills her practice with complex paradoxes, both formal and conceptual, as well as with a drive to untangle and counter archetypal fixity through my’s work at her first solo show, Trust Me, at Galerie Derouillon in Paris. We spoke briefly then but met properly right after, at her
I first came across Mathilde Albouy’s work at her first solo show, Trust Me, at Galerie Derouillon in Paris. We spoke briefly then but met properly right after, at her former residency studio in Villa Belleville.Recent graduate from ENSAD Paris and a current resident at Poush in Paris, Albouy fills her practice with complex paradoxes, both formal and conceptual, as well as with a drive to untangle and counter archetypal fixity through metaphor and poetic force.I first came across Mathilde Albouy’s work at her first solo show, Trust Me, at Galerie Derouillon in Paris.
