Violences
Event
In “Violences”, Léa Drouet seeks to bring us the reverse of the dominant images of violence. Considering that those images – through their transfixing power – keep us from acting and feeling, she tries to introduce movement into the pre-constructed identification of people and situations. Alone on stage, inside a sandbox, she builds and undoes architectures of walls, landscapes and borders, through which the storytelling evolves. In a dramaturgy of resonances, the story of her grandmother Mado, forced to cross the border to escape the Vel' d'Hiv' Roundup, rebounds in recent events such as the story of Mawda, a two-year-old Kurdish child who was shot dead by a Belgian policeman in 2018, which show contemporary violence and ways of resisting it. Perhaps in the fragility of the grains of sand one can find the strength – and not the power – to piece together a world that assumes its conflicts outside of a state of war.
