EMMA BEN AZIZA: nouage

Emma Ben Aziza was born in 1997 and took her first steps towards the theatre (BA and Conservatoire in Lyon), followed by the Beaux-Arts (Valence and Nantes). For her, this was the articulation of the three dimensions that make up every speaking being: that of language, that of the image and that of the thing in its compactness, named by Lacan: the symbolic, the imaginary and the real. Emma Ben Aziza finds support for knotting in her family history, that of a diaspora. Moving back and forth between France and Tunisia forced her grandparents to raze an orange grove made up of rare species of oranges that had not been used for the industrial crops developed under colonisation. One day, she discovered the orchard she had known without any trees, with a paving stone in the place of each trunk. Despite its violence, let's keep this gesture as a visual act, and consider it an inaugural absurdity and the driving force behind her taste for storytelling.