Yzermans focuses on 33 degrees, measure of the slanted position of the raft in the painting by Géricault. This iconic diagonal, found in Baroque dramaturgy, has become a source of investigation for her own work, as well as in the abundance of over-represented flesh in Géricault, she sees the overflowing abundance of nakedness in the contemporary digital world of dating sites on the internet.Yzermans takes the painting out of its unidimensional canvas and, through movement, video, live chat and installation transposes it into space as a multidimensional media. Five artist voices are invited to take turn in this 6 hour performance progressing in time through live chat on dating sites :
Marnie Slater ( visual artist/writer NZ) , Celine Mathieu ( performance artist, BE), Juriji Der Klee (singersongwriter , BE) Lucille Calmel ( performance artist, FR) Elisabeth Vandam ( artist/performer BE)
Premiere De Grote Post, Oostende January 2017 , commissioned by International Triennale ‘The Raft. Art is not Lonely’ 2017
concept & performance Chantal Yzermans
music Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky
original music by Yannick Franck
scenography Samyra Moumouh
costume Jean Paul Lespagnard
images by Aleksei Kazantsev
commissioned by the International Triennale ‘The Raft. Art is not Lonely’ 2017 , Ostend , BE