pROJET t—r/c (trauma, resilience /creation), is a graphic experiment that describes the path of a traumatised person in resilience. Through a visual, sonor and plastic installation, this project describes the trauma as a metamorphis that leads to the reconstruction of your own story and describes it as a poetic and positive alteration.
The trauma will always be here, but to be resilient is to learn how to transform the injury and live with it.
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The trauma is something you live alone, and no one else can understand how much it affects you. It's a rupture with reality. My main focus here was to chock the viewer in order to give a strong and powerful impression, create discomfort. Visually, the colors and movement are completely surreal almost insane. I try to focus on what you feel when the trauma hits you and translate it on screen.
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You can't erase a trauma, but you can learn to live with it and transform the pain into something else. Being resilient is living along with your trauma and not being controlled by it. To represent this idea I chose to create an hologram in order to represent this reconstruction of the soul while being surrounded by the spectators. The main aspect of being resilient is that you are not alone anymore.
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Being resilient is also expressing yourself in order to evacuate the pain. You can talk about it, but when it's too hard you have to replace the words by something else: you start a process of creation. I designed a book explaining the process of this project and what it felt to be traumatized and resilient. At first glance the book only talks about trauma but once you cut the pages you see it also talks about resilience. You have to transform the book like you transform your pain. Thus trauma and resilience live on a same timeline.
Since the subject of trauma and resilience is very personal and no one have the same interpretation of it I tried to be as detached as possible to give the spectator space to decide if they connect to my story or not.
At the end of the experience my only goal was to generate emotions or at least an opinion from the spectator. So that maybe one day if one of them go through a hard time they will remember that trauma doesn't defind you and you can live with it.
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