Les Prouesses de l'Echec v17

An evolving form that is never quite finished, Les Prouesses de l’échec v17 sets out to be a remedy for the constant pressure to excel and for hyper-performance, defusing defeats and fiascos and finally embracing in full the idea of charging straight into the wall. It is an occasion to raise a few probing questions: What is success? Do we all learn to be modest in triumph? How do we imagine, at 20, building a professional career? How does one realise, past 40, that one is far from the announced project… and that this is not a failure all the same? Under what conditions and what injunctions are success or failure decided for each of us? Les Prouesses de l’échec v17 explore our relationship to success and humorously unpick the supposed link between competence and self-confidence, pushing the cult of virility to the point of burlesque.

As part of the partnership with Vertical Détour / Le Vaisseau – an artistic workshop at the Centre de Réadaptation de Coubert. Project “Y aller ou pas” with the Bougainville campus, funded by the DRAC Ile-de-France and the Ile-de-France Regional Council.