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Fanny de Chaillé

La Bibliothèque
Les Soirées Nomades de la Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain — les Abattoirs, Musée – Frac Occitanie Toulouse

La Bibliothèque of Fanny de Chaillé © Marc Domage

You are invited to borrow books from the library for a limited duration, as is the case with any library. Except that the books here are human beings. 

 

This project, founded on the desire to facilitate encounters with others, offers the experience of a new kind of reading in which written language becomes oral, in which the author tells the reader his book. Fanny de Chaillé conceives each library with a group of volunteers and works individually with each person on the construction of a verbal but not recited narrative. Following the protocol of a municipal library, a reader/viewer consults a list of books made freely available. When they have made a choice, a librarian accompanies them for a tête-à-tête lasting a score of minutes with the chosen author/book.


A choreographer, director and performer, Fanny de Chaillé navigates between poetry, theatre, dance and performance, unconfined by genre. The nerve centre of her work is language, this material which can be “tested, ground up, chewed,” from which she can pull out sounds and meanings. In 2011 she put on Je suis un metteur en scène japonais and Passage à l’acte in collaboration with the artist Philippe Ramette.