À L’ENTRELACS DU RÉCIT DE SOI ET DE LA PAROLE DE L’AUTRE : LES EXISTENCES CONTÉES DE VALÉRIE MRÉJEN
BETWEEN INTROSPECTION AND THE STORIES OF OTHERS: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WORKS OF VALÉRIE MRÉJEN

Summary/Abstract: At the same time a writer and a videographer, Valérie Mrejen is an artist who explores the stories of self and others. Thus she associates authentic words and narrative inventions, recorded pictures and fabricated images, in order to manufacture, even to interlace the acts or to play their offsets. However, if her first works are taken to the source of autobiographical dialogues or have reappropriated the vocabulary and the methods of communication, in recent years, Valérie Mréjen is more dedicated to video portrait. It is therefore through the memory and introspection, or by the enchanted narrative of a relation to everyday life, that she renews the figures inherent of the small and large stories, and proposes, with delicacy and humor, an experience of the intimate to share with another who is still located in reflexive position. Finally, Valérie Mréjen ask a question that may seem simple and easy, but witch is in reality very complex, because she demands who – from the artist or the people who compose the work as a speech – is the storyteller of the story? If we refrain from arbitrarily answering this question, we have the choice to be able to resolve the problem and the impact of the “vis-à-vis” that we can see.

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