Adaptation of Guingamor Whom The River Took Back - Laure Lefebvre

​Guingamor Whom The River Took Back is a performance that revisits medieval European tales from the 12th and 13th century that holds connection between water and the magical world in their tales. In these tales, bodies of water separate the real world from a world that resembles it in every respect, but in which time flows differently, where death no longer exists, and castles appear and disappear in the mist. These worlds are a distorted mirror of the real world, separated from it only by an elusive and transparent element: water. The performance draws on amongst other materials, extracts from Foucault’s Heterotopias, in which the philosopher explains how we invest tangible spaces with symbols, meaning and imagination. This reflection is applied to bodies of water as they exist in real life and literature. This adaptation of the original performance will bring an additional layer that interprets and responds to the artworks in the exhibition space.

​This performance will be in English and French.

​About the Artist:

​Laure Lefebvre is a French artist born in Saint Nazaire, she lives and works in Paris. Her primary mediums are collage and performance. In her perfomance work she aims to look at political history or theoritical texts through a poetic or comical lense. She recently graduated from the Beaux Arts de Paris. She also holds a master’s degree in theatre studies from the Sorbonne. She has performed at After8 Books and her work has been shown during the CRUSH exhibition curated by Ingrid Luquet-Gad at the Beaux Arts de Paris.