My room looks like a lie
2020
Installation with an inflatable room


Artwork produced with the support of the Région Île-de-France Talents Émergents

In this work, I use a transparent inflatable room that I designed and built myself. By inflating, deflating, and moving it through public spaces, I seek to reinterpret the notion of “the room”—a space usually associated with intimacy, familiarity, and protection—by transforming it into one that is ephemeral, fragile, and exposed to everyone’s gaze. Made of transparent plastic film, this room turns what is supposed to be a personal refuge into a precarious, unstable, and vulnerable structure. In this performance, as I move my room, I also move my body and my identity, making their boundaries and transformations visible. Over time, the room rises, collapses, and is reborn in a new form. The fragments of plastic scattered on the ground evoke the shed skin of a large creature, a metaphor for identity—constantly disassembling and reconstructing itself. Light and translucent like a soap bubble, this room reflects the fragility and nomadic nature of human existence. Through this gesture, I question how our intimate spaces—what we believe to be stable and personal—dissolve and continually reconfigure themselves under social gaze and within the flow of the world.