Documentary – TV5 monde
With Richard Orlinski
2021
Technique: video support, installation with paper folding.
TV5 monde launched a show in several episodes called “Sur les Murs”. The concept: in the company of Richard Orlinski, they discover cities around the world, get in touch with a French-speaking artist and create a “4-handed” work.
Here I am contacted by the team! (Thank you Gregos for telling them about me) and welcoming Richard and the film crew to Marseille, in my high-perched workshop, my neighborhood…
I did not know Richard Orlinski, nor his work, and I deliberately avoided research beforehand so that the meeting would take place between 2 human beings above all. (And I did well because I later discovered that hundreds of people worked for him and that millions of people followed him: I might have lost, at the time, a little of my naturalness knowing that and above all I would have felt “not enough or too much”…)
And here I am, welcoming her into my house in “makeshift, salvage, alternative style” mode, it was too hot (no air conditioning), it wasn’t that big for their team, my gear was quite minimalist and it was 2 worlds that met when I took them for lunch to eat at my friend Lamia’s associative restaurant, where there is no soda or alcohol, and where the menu was… 7 euros…
I was able to share with them my vision of things, my relationship with money, with life, with the environment. But above all it was a nice human relationship, of sharing, a good time, simple and whole, and I had a lot of pleasure in sharing my passion, my creative desires and the meaning that I like to give to it.
I was listened to and the show was broadcast.
So a big thank you TV5 monde for this invitation, the film crew, and especially Richard for your accessibility, your curiosity and your naturalness without judgment.
(I would have liked to broadcast the video here but I can’t find it…)