Petit guide pour disparaître doucement

Petit guide pour disparaître doucement (roughly, “A Concise Guide to Disappearing Quietly”) is the second installment in an ongoing reflection on existential porosity that started with the creation of Un animal (mort) in 2016. This philosophical get affecting work explores the deconstruction of the notion of “being” as developed in contemporary thought on the individual as a symbol of emancipation. It is a show that confronts the relationship between the self and the collective. Led by a desire for infinite empathy, Félix-Antoine Boutin invents a concise method through which the “I/me” might be sublimated in order to merge into “we/us” – which in turn calls on the self to be defined in order to be overcome. To do this, Boutin summons both real and imagined memories, embodied by little origami houses that make up a mnemonic village from which the potential for embracing multiplicity can emerge. Petit guide pour disparaître doucement is an affective and poetic work that reveals unfamiliar spaces embedded in us.