Filmmaker Benjamin Juhel explores the bodily course of and inner universe of designer William Guillon, who extends his multidisciplinary sculptural follow in collaboration with dancer Nicole Muratov of L’Opera Nationwide de Bordeaux and manufacturing duo Maelstrom & Louisahhh.
Anatomy Of Chaos is a darkish and visceral portrait of Bordelais designer and artwork director William Guillon, whose visceral sculptural follow is captured by filmmaker Benjamin Juhel, of Maison Mouton Noir. Working in collaboration with dancer Nicole Muratov of L’Opera Nationwide de Bordeaux and longtime manufacturing companions Maelstrom and Louisahhh, Guillon achieves a multidisciplinary extension of his singular model, which amplifies magnificence in unconventional varieties. Primarily working in solid bronze, a course of documented in Anatomy Of Chaos, Guillon seeks to push previous the boundaries of the fabric, crafting textural and complicated works that seemingly draw as a lot affect type the pure world as they do from extra esoteric and macabre locations, forging in direction of a sort of up to date gothic sculpture, half practical artwork, half alchemical instrument. His course of is translated into motion by Muratov, whose twisted, instinctual physicality follows the gnarled, imperfect types of Guillon’s sculpture. Placing the artist’s idea of practical artwork into haunting context, Guillon’s objects are revealed as a part of some grander, transformative ritual, the results of his alchemical experimentation.
As if channeling the darkish vitality emanating from Guillon’s work, producers Maelstrom and Louisahhh lend their new monitor ‘If I May Maintain’ to Juhel and Guillon’s imaginative and prescient, which serves because the lead single for the collaborators’ long-awaited debut album, Sustained Resistance. A jagged reflection on the excruciating pains of the deepest love, ‘If I May Maintain’ sees Maelstrom and Louisahhh contorting their “punk for techno heads, techno for punks” sound into impassioned and foreboding new varieties, invoking the frustration and paranoia of post-pandemic disillusionment. “It was a cheerful accident that the audio-visual universes collide so seamlessly, with each sonic and aesthetic groups sharing an appreciation of course of, a relationship with the instinctual and divine work that’s channeling and manifesting creation,” the duo clarify. “The movie explores the tactic, each when it comes to metaphorical ‘chasing the muse’ (as represented by Nicole Muratov of L’Opera Nationwide de Bordeaux) and likewise literal: the carving, casting and shaping of uncooked supplies that make up Guillon’s celebrated sculptural work. It’s all the time a fantastic pleasure when artwork creates extra artwork, and it feels just like the synergy between our music and William’s sculpture (as captured on this video) has created a brand new and thrilling ‘third factor’ that’s nearly unintentional, and due to this fact extra magical.”
They proceed. “We’re actually humbled to have gotten to work on this challenge, and the truth that the themes of ‘looking the muse’, or the chaotic, ecstatic, generally painful act of creation are so expensive to us and so current right here imply rather a lot in the case of a visible illustration of our sound, and the announcement of this document.” Sustained Resistance arrives because the fruits of a artistic partnership that dates again to 2013, when Louisahhh first visited Maelstrom in his base of Nantes. Following 4 collaborative EPs for Bromance Data and the beginning of their very own label, RAAR, their debut album sees Maelstrom and Louisahhh and their most brutal at most lovely, taking rage at damaged programs of governance, grief for these misplaced over the previous few turbulent years and dedication to seek out new methods of considering and being because the uncooked materials for a loud and pressing testimony. Sustained Resistance is the sound of combating again, directly a prescient analysis and a battle cry for the longer term.
‘If I May Maintain’ is taken from Sustained Resistance, which arrives through RAAR on February 10, 2023. Yow will discover each Louisahhh and Maelstrom on Instagram.
For extra details about William Guillon and his work, you could find him on Instagram and take a look at his web site.
Anatomy Of Chaos Credit:
A Undertaking By William Guillon
Director – Maison Mouton Noir
Music – Maelstrom & Louisahhh
Choreography & Dance – Nicole Muratov
Sound Design – Into The Wave Studio
Particular Thanks – YNDO Resort, Fonderie Des Cyclops, Ateliers Arquié, Undercover, Mairie De Saint Emilion, Basis Banque Populaire
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