Janet, Joan, Jackson, Joyce and the Robots is a video installation that tells the life of an artist through films shown in her reconstructed bedroom-studio.
The synchronized films unfold within a space that replicates the proportions of my own bedroom-studio, in which the canvases, the floor, the walls, and the furniture are entirely dripped in white.
Janet, Joan, Jackson, Joyce and the Robots questions the authenticity of styles in the history of images, as well as the processes of repetition, appropriation, and diversion of styles. What is a style? What does it mean to be original, and how can one exist as an artist in an era shaped by imitation, tracking, and censorship by and through generative AI?

Project currently in production at Le Fresnoy, National Studio for Contemporary Arts
Musical composition by Sig Valax
Images by Gwenola Wagon
Texts by Pierre Cassou-Noguès
Editing by Gwenola Wagon with Cécile Bicler
Filmed with Marie-Bénédicte Cazeneuve