With her films and videos, Eponine Momenceau draws us into a visual universe composed of flickers of light and suggestive shadows, picking up on the metaphor of “rays and shadows” Robert Desnos was fond of. A graduate of La Fémis (École nationale supérieure des métiers de l’image et du son, the French national film school), she skillfully mixes aspects of technical knowledge intrinsically linked to cinema, which she unhesitatingly challenges and misappropriates in order to come up with films and videos that have to do with both experimentation and contemplation.

Using a digital camera that can record images in extreme slow motion, the artist has filmed a women’s basketball training session: The fragments of play and the attitudes and expressions of the girls generate a kind of beauty that seems to be inscribed in suspended time. These images are sometimes evocative of certain postures of the body in Renaissance paintings, whether depicting religious or secular themes, connected with the themes of offerings, gifts, exchange, fellowship and sharing. The sound, coming from musical extracts that have a very slow tempo, allows Eponine Momenceau to retranscribe an emotion, so generating a sense of time conducive to contemplation, to a new interpretation of a transformed reality.