A text by the Swiss artist, imbued with highly personal reflections on her relationship with creativity, notions of gender, motherhood, and the place of parenthood in the world of work (more specifically, the tensions inherent in the dual role of mother and artist).
This is the story of a parasitized body led by health management applications that withdraw one after the other. The body is confronted with pmaternity in an exclusionary professional environment, where it must keep silent and face its transformations alone, and a demanding future child, while physical sensations and emotions become increasingly difficult to distinguish.
You fear all that enters you. You don't like to eat, lest the food settle inside of you and end up inva- ding and conquering you. After all, that thought seems perfectly rational: who would want a besie- ged body? You are afraid of yourself. You are afraid of disap- pointing yourself. You are afraid of the feeling of omnipotence that makes you believe the world is yours. You are afraid of being able to do anything but not knowing where to start. You are afraid of living, afraid of existing, afraid of dying because it might upset, might slightly disturb, the order of things.
Caroline Schattling Villeval, a Swiss artist born 1995 in Zurich and based in Geneva, uses installation, sculpture, video, and sound to develop a dreamlike universe populated by plants and animals. Characters in search of a form of personal emancipation and a position in relation to a society whose conditions of integration are defined by notions and logic specific to theories of personal development . The relationships between the characters are erased, virtualized, so that the communities represented are in fact isolated and made solely responsible for their well-being. The notion of contamination recurs in Caroline Schattling Villeva's work, creating artifacts endowed with the power to disseminate and colonize information. The motifs represented form a polymorphous material in constant mutation and imbued with a fallen symbolism.
