Timothée Engasser
Omens Bloom in the Dark - Film - 15min - 2024
présenté dans le cadre de l'exposition Panorama 26
Film
It is a looming, creeping threat that interferes with thoughts, bodies and looks. Through incessant dreams and strange events, an inner anguish spreads and is transformed into persecution mania. With its infinite vines, a plant haunts both minds and the surfaces it overgrows.
Faced with deep anguish at irremediable change, this vine represents an omen of our changing worlds. These famous auguries that anthropologist Ana Tsing invites us to perceive through the ruins of our time.
According to conspiracy theories, this vine embodies a strange, even alien evil, which is purportedly there to invade and contaminate. This misshapen green mass advances relentlessly in silence, but this hypothetical contagion reveals much more than anxiety about death. It’s as if this unimaginable plant could strike us down through the spectacle of the mirror of our own disproportion.
Timothée Engasser
Born in Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire in 1991, Timothée lives and works between Marseille and Roubaix. After completing a degree in urban sociology with a research/art thesis, he pursued his research interests in documentary/experimental cinematographic works that probe the borders of reality. His aim is to explore the imaginary world of traces, ruins and gaps.
