PRESS REVIEW

Ink flows… After the release of the video creation "Regarde", Juliette offers us a few words about it: "In preparation for five years now, Regarde is a thread: a thread born from the art of a father that finds its continuity in that of his son. A pianist by training, Perceval Alizadeh Fard offers a look at the work of the painter Aurélien Alizadeh Fard through a piece where music, dance, and painting intimately intermingle, whether the latter is that of the painter or the paintings of Nature constituted by landscapes. But let us not speak here of a musical adaptation of the painted canvas: it is rather a pictorial impulse that the music and image come to prolong, develop, extend, liberate. A stroke of oil that escapes the canvas and becomes sound... and dance... Laura Simarro's choreography is a tint added to the sound palette, where the body becomes the fiber of sound, 'attempting to embrace the latter in space' in the artist's words. It is indeed by desiring to link his compositional work to that of his father's works, works he has been rubbing shoulders with since childhood, that Perceval Alizadeh Fard saw this project initiate, almost naturally. From a program for the exhibition 'Radiant Pulsations' written by the painter in 1987, the composer draws the images and elements that will nourish the universe of Regarde: mirror, permanent duality between day and night, light and darkness, interior and exterior, like two sides of the same unit as illustrated by the young woman's body in the 1985 canvas, at once divided and unified by color. Coiled in a unit made of their two personalities, the two women from the 1986-1987 canvas together form a pyramidal composition that Laura Simarro completes, as if emerging from the canvas, at the beginning of the clip and which we find at the end of it on the beach, in a unit renewed by day. Hearing, seeing and touching are here deeply linked by gestures responding to words, but also by prosody whose rhythm joins the dance. The body is indeed magnified both visually, by the dance, and by the listener's senses which are here solicited because listening is not passive: the ear mixes together meaning of words and sounds. All dualities disappear when we pass through the mirror that leads to the grandiose landscape of the day: wind and space then seem to sweep away opposites as the voice reveals it: 'In the dark for only light'. And polyphony, both vocal and instrumental, comes to give life to this light that the lyrics call us to contemplate. Built in a progressive thickening of the sound fabric on an unalterable rhythm, the composition carries us into a final flight where the instruments merge into the vocal line. Like the two paintings visible in the clip, Regarde is only one element of a much larger canvas, initiated in 2015 and made of other compositions that may perhaps be visible one day, let us hope!" Juliette Gicquel-Molard, July 11, 2021. Juliette Gicquel-Molard is a musicologist, a pianist at the CRR of Paris and a museum explorer. She is currently preparing for the heritage curator competition at Sorbonne-University.