Low commotion is the first major catalogue dedicated to the artistic work of Olivier Dollinger.

The works of Olivier Dollinger question the social space and the individual attempts to create a contemporary identity. In its photographs and its videos, Olivier Dollinger unmasks the intensity and the interior violence that are required to fulfil a given social role. The Overdrive installation, presented at the Chez Valentin gallery in 2003, emphasized the aberration of SPL (Sound Pressure Leasure) contests. With Andy (1999-2003), a dummy generally used to teach the rudiments of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, Olivier Dollinger has filmed unpredictable and paradoxical behaviours. Typical of an experimental relational process, desires and fantasies literally poured onto the inanimate dummy. The intimate was bared and exposed. Olivier Dollinger unveils the perversity of everyday life, when our gestures and social behaviours are quite often synonymous with a representation, a staging. In the manner of a role game, of an interpretation mirroring the position of the professional actor in a contemporary society over-exposed to the media scrutiny. The Norma Jean project at the Credac in 2003 dealt with a famous actress, Marilyn Monroe. For this project, Olivier Dollinger has chosen to capture under hypnosis the memory of a Hollywood icon. During the session, the voice of a hypnotiser urges actresses to slip into the idol's skin. Slowly, the other, the icon-the character-her memory-her fantasy- is resuscitated.