Performance / Video / Installation
Collaboration with Leila Ziu
2017

At a time where our visual representations tend to be fabricated, glamorised, distorted and manipulated, this project exposes and confronts ‘idealised’ imagery from the truthful perspective of the ordinary. Taking influence from the visual language of showbiz, popular culture, fashion and advertising, the artists surrender to the work right from the start confining themselves in the challenged aesthetic.
Their performance indulges in the tension between the search for perfection, wanting to impress and the reality of their vulnerability, humanity and errors. Only using DIY techniques and banal everyday locations as film sets, Ziu and Berthelot attempt to bring glamour into the ordinary, on-screen magic into real life.

An attempt doomed to fail or wildly succeed.