La Vie… Camp de travAIE ! - Splatch !

If art entails first and foremost a playful activity, trying to stretch the borders of the useful and the profitable, Lizène is beyond any doubt the master of the useless. In ‘La Vie...’ the camera is fixed on a busy crossroads, while irregular counting patterns resound in the background: “1-2, 1-2-3”, like a dipping rhyme for the pace at which we try to run into our sterile lives, but also passing by them every time. It is not that Lizène is trying to present a broad discourse on ‘toning down’, for that his ‘art stupide’ is too elusive and his inclination towards the ridiculous too strong, as the last minutes make clear. Splotch!