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Elsa Fauconnet’s work is rooted in a cross-disciplinary approach that intersects fiction, historical research, scientific discovery, and critical observation. Her projects unfold like expanding worlds, blending humor and poetry to probe reality and reveal its flaws. Each film she creates serves as a starting point from which a constellation of objects, textiles, ceramics, and images unfolds, extending the reflection initiated on screen. Her projects are constructed as vast ramifications of thought, where unexpected connections are woven between seemingly unrelated ideas or images.
Inspired by the research of anthropologist Jean-Loïc Le Quellec, Elsa Fauconnet revisits the hypothesis that Paleolithic cave paintings are linked to a grand myth of Creation. In his book La Caverne originelle (2022), Le Quellec argues that prehistoric artists painted the deep, dark walls of caves to symbolically reenact the emergence of the world. According to this interpretation, the cave…
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Elsa Fauconnet’s work is rooted in a cross-disciplinary approach that intersects fiction, historical research, scientific discovery, and critical observation. Her projects unfold like expanding worlds, blending humor and poetry to probe reality and reveal its flaws. Each film she creates serves as a starting point from which a constellation of objects, textiles, ceramics, and images unfolds, extending the reflection initiated on screen. Her projects are constructed as vast ramifications of thought, where unexpected connections are woven between seemingly unrelated ideas or images.
Inspired by the research of anthropologist Jean-Loïc Le Quellec, Elsa Fauconnet revisits the hypothesis that Paleolithic cave paintings are linked to a grand myth of Creation. In his book La Caverne originelle (2022), Le Quellec argues that prehistoric artists painted the deep, dark walls of caves to symbolically reenact the emergence of the world. According to this interpretation, the cave…
