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  • Mia Brion : Take me with you

    Mia Brion, Take me with you, 2020, text / dig­ital col­lage, art­work pro­duced as part of the " Après " cre­ation sup­port pro­ject, Bétonsalon - Centre d’art et de recherche & Villa Vassilieff, TRAM Réseau art con­tem­po­rain Paris / Île-de-France, 2020.

    Take me with you takes the form of a fan fic­tion (a work that some fans create to per­pet­uate, amend or even totally meta­mor­phose a cul­tural object they love) from the series The OA, can­celled by Netflix after 2 sea­sons (out of the 5 planned). Created by Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij in 2016, this series tells the story of a young woman named Prairie Johnson who resur­faces after dis­ap­pearing for seven years. Prairie now iden­ti­fies her­self as the "AO" (Original Angel) and has regained her sight (she was blind before she dis­ap­peared). 

    Online, many fans of the series exchange clues from inside and out­side the episodes to imagine what hap­pens next. These groups are con­stantly looking for new reading keys, replaying the col­lec­tive intel­li­gence issues addressed by the series, putting their time to good use and investing new spaces, going as far as demon­strating in front of Netflix head­quar­ters for #SaveTheOA / #TheOAis­Real (save the AO / the AO is real). For some, the year 2020 appears to be season 3 of the series moved into our world. Has the world been can­celled or are we all in season 3?

    Mia Brion’s art­work is com­posed of five screen­shots from the series and its uni­verse, cap­tioned by five stanzas each com­posed of eight free verses. The ver­si­fi­ca­tion rules echo the series’ five planned sea­sons and the eight episodes that make up each season.

    This work approaches the con­cept of "trans­bi­og­raphy" defined by the artist as a weave of biogra­phies (those of the dif­ferent char­ac­ters, the cre­ators of the series and her own). Etymologically, the weft comes from trans meare, or "sliding beyond"; and indi­cates the tran­si­tional state, without begin­ning or end, of some­thing. These sto­ries inter­twine in syn­chronicity to weave or uncover new nar­ra­tives.

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