Virgin Transposition

The performance refers to the Japanese art of Kintsugi, which consists of repairing broken pottery with powdered gold. This gesture of repair, as an integral part of the object’s history, gives it an even greater value.

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The audience is invited to express their broken parts on the black canvas, using tools such as scissors or cutters, while on the other side Isabelle stitches these symbolized wounds with golden thread. The act of suturing transforms the canvas into a living map of resilience: each seam marking a past rupture, each thread affirming a restored unity.

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In the end, the canvas is entirely sewn. What had been torn becomes the very structure of the artwork.
Virgin Transposition explores the way healing transforms the surface of our being — not by erasing the scars, but by integrating them into a new, unified form where the traces of vulnerability become the foundation of beauty.

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Behind the evident poetry of this performance, Isabelle continues to question the alienation and mistreatment of women that persist even in the 21st century, whether self-inflicted or imposed.

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