Aurelie Hoegy‘s performances, films and installations explore the more eccentric aspects of our behaviour : ” Behind the veneer of normality every person has a mysterious side that is waiting to surface. Everyone is full of life, passion and madness, visible or suppressed” . Her drawing illustrates her proposal for lamp with a 50 metre cable – an apt way to visualise the the inconvenience of everyday life.
Simone de Beauvoir observes that there is an increasing reliance on routines and habits as we grow older, that she attributes to a means of experiencing everyday life in the present, to avoid being reminded of time passing. Our posessions, she suggests, support these routines:”The things that belong to us are, as it were, solidified habits, the mark of certain repetitive forms of repetitive behaviour. The posession of a garden means being able to take one’s walk every afternoon: this armchair is waiting for me to sit in it every evening.” (De Beauvoir, S. (1970) La Viellese (tr.Old Age (1972).
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