Ion (2015)

This impulse to come back to the solitude of artistic research, Cindy Van Acker finds it in her own journey as a choreographer, but also in Nietzsche and Nijinsky, her companions at the time. It is through them, the poet-philosopher who claimed to be a dancer and the dancer who stopped dancing to write his diary, that she hopes to be unsettled in order to create Ion. "They are two geniuses, two giants of authenticity and self-exposure to the world. They open up a space of availability without limits. And not without danger. One within the world of writing, the other with the physical language, they keep body and mind so deeply attached. In the creating process I’m currently leading, they make me delay the moment to go to the body. "

Since 2001, the artist has walked inch by inch into some impossible organic states, she went down in a slow pace that eventually seemed fast, she cracked spacetime using suspension, a freeze frame. She stands today under the impulse of her title, Ion, which in ancient Greek means “going”, “which goes”, and relates in chemistry to the transport of electrical charges. With the idea of knocking over, literally reversing, her own perspectives and perceptions, as well as the ones of the viewer.  — MP