Anne Le Troter The Volunteers, pigment-medicine

Anne Le Troter continues her exploration of the mechanisms of language and the power of speech through sound, writing and installation. She approaches the thousands of photographs of the Marc Vaux Archive as a huge sound archive populated by the voices of artists. She listens to the voices of caregiving artists and of artists under care, probing their words in the interstices of the silent images. On December 11th, 1937, three friends, artists and writers – Louise Hervieu, Philippe Fauré-Fremiet and Édouard Mac’Avoy – imagined a document for caregivers retracing the illnesses of the body and founded the « Louise Hervieu Association to Establish the Health Booklet ». In this sound piece, Anne Le Troter recomposes their exchanges and invites artists to lend their voices, reactivating their debates. Those who she calls “volunteers” question the representations of their bodies and the material conditions of their lives as art workers. As their conversations evolve, together they develop the medical autobiography of a collective body.

With the support of the ADAGP – French society for the collection and distribution of copyright in the field of graphic and visual arts within the frame of the ADAGP – Bétonsalon grant, in collaboration with the Kandinsky Library, Centre Pompidou, of Fondation Pernod Ricard and of frank elbaz gallery.