Don’t plan a date to the artist Loris Gréaud’s feature-length film Sculpt, due to premiere at Lacma on 16 August—and not because of the content, which might not be for the faint of heart if its frenetic red-hued trailer of bondage, screams and creepy masks is an accurate sneak peek. The movie, which stars leading actors such as Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Rampling, caters for the individual—the museum’s Bing Theater will be reconfigured for only one audience member at a time. “It’s a ‘tête-à-tête’, the idea that the film looks at you on the same level [as] you look at it,” the artist explained to The Art Newspaper over email.
“Sculpt is a social science fiction movie that depicts unprecedented shapes and experiences, along with obsessions and fantasies. The film follows the thoughts of a man about whom we know very little, who seems to be constantly developing the concept of what experiencing beauty, thought or obsession can be,” says a press statement. “The film rolls have been cursed by Voodoo Mambo priestess Miriam Chamani [who also appears in the film]," Gréaud adds. The artist also stresses that the entire project is free to the public and hopes that it will spread around the world through illegal screenings, bootleg copies and samples of the project on the DarkNet. "It’s a Hollywood money-losing machine, copying (in its fiction) the art market and the art world,” Gréaud said.
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