Hantédemos
Theremespare - Film - 22min - 2024
presented as part of the exhibition Panorama 26
In 2019, I bought a phone that systematically geolocated me in a green zone in the Morvan region [Burgundy]. Instead of looking for a rational explanation, I decided to go to this mysterious place, which I did in the summer of 2023. In the meantime, a narrative labyrinth had developed around it all, mingling with the post-Covid mindset.
Theremespareis an esoteric heterotopia invented by a TikTok influencer, in which the narrator, filming in POV mode, becomes obsessed and dissolves the boundary of their phone screen in a process of narcotic consumption of forms of escape from the contemporary world, alienated by capitalist realism and the vortex of the digital.
Theremespareembodies a desire for transcendence, a treasure hunt and a glitch in the disconnected life of the queer-artist protagonist.
Theremespareis also a set of Google Maps coordinates, which he pursues through layers of metamorphic fantasies and illusions.
The film is a treasure hunt, seeking a reality (the truth?) that is always bolting down rabbit holes.
Hantédemos
Hantédemos is a French artist born in Paris in 1990. He lives and works in Marseille. A 2015 graduate of the École nationale supérieure d’arts de Paris-Cergy (ENSAPC), his work is driven by writing and follows the common thread of fictions manifested in film and performance, clearing rabbit holes in capitalist realism. Their performances have been shown at the FRAC Aquitaine, Around Vidéo in Lille, Le Point Ephémère in Paris, Mains d’Œuvres in Saint Ouen, La Station in Aubervilliers, Ugly Duck in London, and their films at La Fab, Césure in Paris, Around Vidéo in Lille, Go Short in the Netherlands, etc.
