In this mixed-media performance/installation, Amélie Chabannes investigates the difficult task of capturing the depth and complexity of the human being. She uses the context of a staged archeological dig to explore the enormity of the “person” within a specific philosophical and psychoanalytical framework.

Drawing on Carl Jung’s Contributions to Analytical Psychology and Gaston Bachelard’s Poetics of Space, Amélie Chabannes presents a massive rectangular block composed of wax layers as the “person.” She sets it in the center of a large, gridded space, evocative of a dig, and over a few days, excavates it, breaking into it to release fragments, each to be archived where it falls.

This event is part of Endurance/Resistance/Inspiration,
one of Crossing the Line 2011's three curatorial program perspectives.