What do we know about our living environments? What understanding do we have of the invisible forms of pollution that permeate them? The Dutch artist Rita Hoofwijk has taken up residence in the yellow building of Port Saint-Louis, at the mouth of the Rhône, between, on the one hand, one of Europe’s largest industrial zones and, on the other, the Camargue. She invited the audience to join her here, at Le Citron Jaune, where her voice led them through a multi-layered narrative: at once myth, memory and invocation.
The audience gathered for a journey towards the White Mushroom, for an ephemeral act of tenderness towards a place that often remains little known, where the human, the living and the industrial coexist. An exploration at dusk, in the hidden reverse side of our contemporary ways of life.
This performance took place only once – in two phases. Two acts of the same ritual form a continuous gesture: the first just before sunset on Saturday evening, and the second shortly after dawn on Sunday morning.
