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THE MAKING OF IDENTITIES

An activist in the sharing of the sensitive as associate artist at the Théâtre de la Ville for the project of the Grand rassemblement [Great Gathering] which ran over several months with middle school pupils from the Seine-Saint-Denis, Rachid Ouramdane knows that every now and then he needs to go back to the intimate experience of solo performance to constantly restructure, in some autobiographical movement (but not just), the necessity to expose himself. After Les Morts pudiques [Discreet Deaths] (2004) and Loin… [Far Away…] (2008), a journey between masks and identity, Rachid Ouramdane pursues a quest which leads him to confront sensitive subjects. In Great Exhibition, he wonders specifically about the making of national identities: “how is an ideology embodied in sensitive forms?” and again “what marks are left by political history on the body?” Ouramdane strives to show “the dissolution of the body in official ideals”, naturally without its complete blending in them, since the body is also a place of symbolic, and yet very real, resistance.

Jean-Marc Adolphe