Nicolas
Primat
Born in 1967 in Lyon (France).
Lives and works in Marseille.

"My desire to approach
the animal theme from different
angles brought me to work
with dead animals, in an almost
scientific way, and with a great
respect bordering on animism.
The idea is simple :
I do a memorial act to artificially
counteract the inevitable
decomposition of the body.
The body of the animal is
transformed, and I render this
transformation poetic by giving
it the form of a possible journey
to the beyond, which allows me
for example to suspend the flight
of a bird by means of a photo,
or to bring the animal back to life
in video, image by image." N. P.

Le ver solitaire
Colour video, 2 min 13, 2002

Short story of the friendship between a character who’s losing his mind and a tapeworm.

Tricky Dance
Colour video, 2 min 34, 2002

A tormented fox gets caught up in an anthropomorphic dance.

La cervelle et le coeur
Colour video, 3 min 30, 2002

In the gut of a fox, a brain dances while turning into a heart.

L’ours à plume
Colour video, 8 min 04, 2002

Vol de nuit
Colour video, 3 min 51, 2002

Dead bird flying in the night.

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