poisseau

Poisseau is a collaborative performance piece created for the ‘Women and Water’ program at Les Bains-Douches Contemporary Art Centre in Chauvigny, France.

The work was realized by composer Cristian Estrella (ARG/SK) and visual artists Christiane Candries (FR) and Sally Annett (FR/UK). It unfolds as a live dialogue in which the gestural painting of Candries and Annett responds directly to an original musical work, composed by Estrella during a residency at the Atelier de Mélusine in La Trimouille, France.

Poisseau explores hybrid identities through the figure of a liminal being: a flying creature, half fish and half bird, that transcends the realms of water and sky. The performance constructs a fluid narrative where auditory and visual elements are inextricably linked, each displacing and defining the other in real time.