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Playpausesong (2024)

Single-channel video piece, 3’28
16:9 / SD digital file / color / stereo


All spacebars around the world are sentenced together to the same music. It started in the 20th century and is still being played since. Each performer must execute the same gesture indefinitely, the frenetic gesture of media access and their mass consumption.

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Desktopsongs is a series of video pieces using a hybrid language, combining music, images, and digital interfaces. Inspired by the practice of desktop movie, these pieces are presented as computer songs. They are short forms, established according to a unilateral and satirical system, allowing the questioning of our relationship with contemporary technologies.

“ Each press of the spacebar - the unified keyboard key - triggers the same rythm and the same mechanical composition. It is an echo of the twentieth-century acceleration that has not died out but has become an omnipresent algorithm, pulsating in an endless cycle of pause and play. The performer has no choice - s/he repeats the gesture of access, entangled in the ritual of mass consuption, where the act of playing the content is also the gesture of its duplication. “

^{CRD of Pantin, France 2025
Façade Video Festival, Plovdiv, Bulgaria 2025
The Cinematheque, Small File Media Festival, Vancouver, Canada 2024
The Digital Depot, Beta, Dublin, Ireland 2024}

^{Ranger Magazine, N° 10 2025
Poznań Graphic Arts Biennale: IMPORT/EXPORT, Exhibition catalog 2025}

^{Mini Bear award, Small File Media Festival 2024}