A round of love / “live model” workshop
An artistic exploration of the body by Nicolas Puyjalon
Les Abattoirs invites Nicolas Puyjalon to lead an artistic exploration of the body and the gaze through Une ronde d'amour, a “live model” workshop.
This performative workshop offers an immersion in the practice of drawing from a live model, revisiting its traditional codes to infuse it with a contemporary, inclusive, and creative approach. The event allows participants to develop their observation and artistic sensitivity, but also to question aesthetic norms and the representation of the body while promoting freedom of expression and creativity.
"The performance features a queer body exposed as a ‘live model’ and as a specimen: it moves, freezes, transforms under the gaze, between pose, deformation, and abandonment, sometimes a hesitant voice speaks, sings, moans. It brings into play the intimacy of a queer man—domestic gestures, fragmented memory, archive, and fiction—by stretching time to reveal the being, the vulnerability, and the trace of what cannot be transmitted. Infused with clowning, self-mockery, and laughter as tools for healing, the performance explores a form of collective self-healing where the observed body becomes material to draw, look at, and repair". Nicolas Puyjalon
This workshop is open to all audiences curious to experiment with drawing and representing the body.
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Nicolas Puyjalon
Holder of the AIC DRAC Occitanie (2020), Nicolas Puyjalon's practice is mainly focused on performance and writing. Failure, absurdity, clumsiness, the derisory... are all themes that run through his work with humor and poetry. He collects, cuts, and assembles fragments of recycled materials to create makeshift sets for his stories.
After graduating from L'isdaT in 2009 (DNSEP), he moved to Berlin. He also develops work with others, often in duos, such as with Zabo Chabiland, Estelle Vernay, Emilie Franceschin, and Leila Peacock. More recently, he encountered clowning with Clémence Caillouel. A clown in search of resonance, vulnerable, with whom he has since explored his relationship to the body, food, and the question of traces, of what cannot be transmitted: the memories, places, language, and rituals of the queer community.
His performances have been presented in institutions such as the Chapelle Saint Jacques contemporary art center (2023), the Palais de Tokyo (2017), the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature (2013), as well as in numerous festivals in France and internationally.
Recently, his work was exhibited at the Maison Salvan (2024).
https://ddaoccitanie.org/fr/artistes/nicolas-puyjalon/oeuvres