Antoine + Manuel on White Night 2015

Manuel Warosz: A very monumental and old building, historical, in a big city. The first time it was in the Grand Palais, which was a beginning of the 20th century building. Very large, approximately the same, same scale for the place we were. So, I think that we were unaccustomed to this kind of space. And it was a challenge and very interesting to, to work well with this kind of monumental space.

Anais Lellouche: I'm curious to know how much architecture this space itself will influence what you make, what you create. Are you inspired by the architecture?

Manuel: For sure the architecture is very inspirational. This artwork couldn't, could not be done anywhere else. Every little bit of light and every colour and every composition is completely composed by the space. 

Antoine Audiau: The thing is that the work is meant for this architecture. It was the same as Le Grand Palais and, and the thing, and the weird thing in a way, it's only meant for this place and only for one night.

Manuel: Yeah, and after this one, this night, nobody would be able see such a work. And if we have to work anywhere else, because the atmosphere, because…

Antoine: The mentality, you have to experience this.

Manuel: It would be very different. Maybe we could use the same inspirations, but it would be completely different because here you have arches, you have balconies, you have certain heights and when you are down and you look up you, you have only one experience possible. You, you, you can't have it anywhere else.

Antoine: And it's a mix between the void, the voids and the plane.

Manuel: Yeah.

Antoine: You know the, the walls and the, the emptiness.

Manuel: Of course.

Antoine: And the, the structure of the work and how it's, how it's made.

Manuel: The, the title of the artwork is Eat Me. It’s based on the Alice in Wonderland story. And in…we…so we found this title. First it was Drink Me.

Antoine: Yes.

Manuel: Because it was so funny that an object can talk to you. 

So maybe we tried to make object talk to you in a different way here and if you look closer to the work you, you'll see cakes that we bought in a French patisserie and we made them live like, like, not, not like beings.

Antoine: You know, like creatures. 

Manuel: Yeah, they are, they're living. They’re are like organs also. Like living like organs.

So this time we were very happy to meet a musician. It was the first time for us to have this kind of experience. Usually we work with images and we always feel that, we feel that music is missing. When we look at the pictures and when we watched the videos something is missing. And this time we had the opportunity with Anais to meet a great musician and we worked together and it was fantastic.