2020
Video full HD, colour, sound, 19'39''
With Pascale Dilitta, Jacqueline Gindre, Thierry M.
Produced by Le Confort Moderne art center.
 

"1984: the first stone of the futuristic and scientific theme park Futuroscope is set.
2014: during a conference in Zagreb, the philosopher Mark Fisher announces that 'the future has been cancelled'.
2020: 'They will be able to detect our sensations, our desires and everything we need...' - Pascale D., Les Futurs.

The triangulation of these three pieces of information is puzzling. Time does not seem linear, and 2020 echoes 1984. In the meantime, any projective possibility has been annihilated: the future has become a style, an aesthetic, an object of commodification and control. Are we in the middle of a dystopian story, stuck in a futurepast and unable to differentiate projection, science fiction and reality? We were promised that the year 2000 would be a (maybe risky) turning point... but what is left now?
In a visionary theme park that has become the open-air museum of a 1980s future, Marion Balac asks three psychics and mediums to explain their visions of the futures that await us - or may have already arrived. The resulting film Les Futurs puts into perspective different generational and cultural visions of what the world of tomorrow will be like."
Carin Klonowski
 

LES FUTURS

2020
Solo show at Le Confort Moderne.

"Not far from the main video, a series of three videos on tv screens shows us three psychics predicting the exhibition. Watching these speculative predictions in the self-referential context of the exhibition space gives a sense of circularity, of the condensation of space and time, thepresentoftheexhibitionshowsusitspastdescribingitsfuture. We enter an in situ, in medias res and hic et nunc. Further on, we go in 'real time': seated on faux concrete bleachers like on a TV show set that would offer us time as a spectacle, we bathe in the vaporous music of the projected film. Contrasting with the approximation of the recorded predictions, the whole scenery is precise like a meteorite crash - from and in the present. [...] Inviting us to be in the present by magnetically concentrating temporal, cultural and fictional strata, Marion Balac does not resolve the disorder of our troubled spatio-temporal references. She almost tends to support it, showing us that it is constantly haunted by the past and fantasies of possible futures. In a retrofuturistic setting, she invites us to experience time through its materiality, its potentials and uncertainties: as an object of critical reflection and storytelling."
Toutes les forces de l'attraction booklet with a text by Carin Klonowski (in french)