SWEAT

By Elsa Brès

The first attempts to map the Mississippi Delta date back to the early 18th century. Since then, it has been constantly transformed to be exploited. Meandering between times and spaces, Sweat gradually immerses us between the lines of the maps, in the fluctuating and insubordinate part of the Mississippi delta, by following living beings that inhabitate it, human and more-than-human, toward another story.

Elsa Brès was born in 1985 and lives in Bréau, in the Cévennes. She graduated from Le Fresnoy - studio national d'arts contemporains in 2017 and from the Paris-Belleville School of Architecture in 2012 - where she taught architecture and landscape theory. Her films and installations focus on forces of resistance in contemporary landscapes, and blend researches, narratives and experimentations. Her projects are anchored in long time periods and in territories to which she is linked, in an approach that is increasingly open to collaborations. She is currently developing a new film in the rural French region where she lives, which deals with wild boars as allies : Les Sanglières. Her recent exhibitions and screenings include: FID Marseille (2020, 2016), transmediale (2021), Cincinnati Contemporary art center (2022), MO.CO Panacée (2021), Manifesta 13 (2021), CRAC Occitanie (2020), LOOP Barcelona (2017), 25FPS (2016), Palais de Tokyo (2017), Tënk (2021), Hong-Kong University (2021), Haus der Kulturen der Welt Anthropocene curriculum (2019). Her films are produced within the production collectives Parkadia films and Elinka films.