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

My Room Resembles a Lie is a performance staged with a transparent inflatable room that I designed. Across several public sites, I inflate it, lie inside it, drag it, deflate it, carry it elsewhere, and inflate it again. Through this repeated action, I reconsider the idea of the “room” as a place generally associated with intimacy, familiarity, and protection. Made of transparent plastic, the room turns what is usually perceived as a private refuge into an unstable, precarious, and fully exposed structure. In the performance, the room becomes an unstable extension of my body. As it appears, collapses, spreads across the ground, and rises again, my own presence is displaced and remade with it. For me, a room is less a fixed shelter than a temporary structure, constantly moved, rebuilt, and exposed to the gaze of others. The inflatable room makes this condition visible: a dwelling that holds only as long as it is filled with air, collapses into a heap of plastic skin on the pavement, and must be carried to the next site and begun again. Light and translucent like a soap bubble, this room reveals that the spaces we believe we inhabit, own, or control may have always been unstable and temporary structures.