Muriel Toulemonde
Born in 1970 in Lille (France).
She lives and works in Paris.
CURRICULUM


Muriel Toulemonde’s works question the idea of body, of physical performance and of pushing back the "natural" limits
of life to set new targets.
Of the power of science and technology in the setting of
these new targets. Of the vanity
of these issues.

Atalante
35 mm transposed on DVD (16/9), 4 min 43, 2004. filmed In the antic stadium of Delphes,
The artist's abording here the run in his spiritual dimension and the sports training as an intimate and solitary story of effort. We're always fascinated by the striking, sensual beauty, Muriel Toulemonde's images, while the bodies which she gives us to see - in full effort, forced or relaxed - also evoke time and death through the prism of a very succeeded aesthetics.
The body and the time, the game and the fight, the pleasure and the suffering, the beauty and the fear are in the heart of its work, until they become obsessional there. There's no exit in her images, except that of the present moment, of this disturbing moment which is shown to us, in an infinitely just balance of the body moving in the space, between dream and choreography. SEE VIDEO EXTRACT

Les nageurs
Colour video, 10"11', 2002

In Budapest, a swimming team's intensive training session in a pool under renovation is filmed. Following up her last work, Muriel Toulemonde pursues her research on the notion of effort.

Fabeltier
Colour video, 30", stills, 2000.

Muriel Toulemonde reveals the efforts of a horse on a moving walkway, confronted with a never-ending flow of water. The moving body of the animal slowly merges into the current, creating a hypnotic rhythm. The horse escapes from danger by its continuous galloping...

Le fleuve
Colour video, 10"50', 2001

A never-ending flow of individuals immersed in river, happily carried along by an irreversible current. Inevitable and unconscious drift or sweet plunge into a fully accepted destiny ? Once again, water is a means of confronting bodies with their temporality.
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