Faire la nouille
Being a noodle
Of the return of the prodigal noodle or the metaphor in latency or the eye of Pierre Yves Clouin which awakens the latent beneath the trivial, the metaphor beneath the smallest element. arte povera or machine art or the bias of the thing. All this in serious humor: a noodle in the shape of a small bow or butterfly is separated from other identical ones grouped together on the white support of a household appliance, a washing machine or dishwashing machine which vibrates when running and makes the little ones jump food. It takes 1 minute and 17 seconds for the isolated person to reach the others and according to the title, in game in the style of Pierre Yves Clouin, to thus "join the herd". Returning to your peers after the temptation of a more risky life, returning like the prodigal son after having spent everything or even before having even tried: the noodle is intact. The resemblance announced is that of the sheep or any other group animal, with gregarious behavior; it takes a sociological look at the fear or impossibility of remaining alone, of living autonomously, which slides towards the depreciative territory: choosing to be more of a fool than a thinker. Pierre Yves Clouin could have said it was too good a pasta but he preferred French-style food with a less happy nuance. The noodle is not cooked there, without which the adhesion, the softness would have prevented the little sound of jumping but there is thus another shift in meaning, towards the "object" portmanteau word made of object and play by Francis Ponge. Him, Ponge held another butterfly, the real one flying, he saw it as "a tiny sailboat of the air mistreated by the wind into superfluous petals." Pierre Yves Clouin does with the form, what the poet does with the word but for both, the object/food retained becomes the inspired motif, the place of the metaphor, beyond the common gaze - which separates us from the herd . Every object is a reason for invention. Because she is a butterfly, the noodle takes us far from the slang formulas that the artist's previous films could have triggered and it triggers our smile in front of the poetic quip in the video.
Simone Dompeyre
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