Etienne Guiol FR
A Salty Protest #2
Immersive show
A tour of artworks in public spaces as part of the Aix Biennale
Friday 30th and Saturday 31st October
from 7pm to 11pm
25-minute continuous sessions
Capacity limited to 400 people per session.
Théâtre de l’Archevêché
Aix-en-Provence
A Salty Protest is an immersive video installation inspired by Philip Glass’s opera Satyagraha, staged by the choreographer Lucinda Childs.
The work explores the political and poetic power of non-violent resistance. The choreography and music link Gandhi’s struggle to those of Tolstoy, Tagore and Martin Luther King. The installation creates a visual world centred on Hindu iconography and contemporary dance. The work focuses on the episode of Gandhi’s famous Salt March in 1930, the first major act of mass civil disobedience.
Etienne Guiol, Bruno de Lavenère and David Debrinay, who co-created the piece with Lucinda Childs, have come together once again to extend this work beyond the walls of the Opera and invite the public to experience this installation in an immersive way.
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Based on Philip Glass’s opera *Satyagraha*, directed by Lucinda Childs and produced by the Opéra de Nice Côte d’Azur, BK International and Immersive Opera on 2 October 202.
Co-production: Immersive Opera / Opéra Nice Côte d’Azur.
This project was funded by the French Government as part of the France 2030 programme.
Etienne Guiol
Etienne Guiol, an illustrator and video artist born in 1989, explores the body and movement. Trained in drawing, animation, and stained-glass art, he explored a wide range of techniques before settling on the ones he feels most comfortable with: drawing and video.
Etienne grew up in Chartres. He studies from life in the traditional way to improve his drawing skills. At age 16, following in the footsteps of the Academy’s students in the 19th century, he left for Rome to further his self-taught studies. Interested in stained glass, he began training to become a master glassmaker while still in high school and went on to work at renowned studios such as the Atelier Loire and the Atelier Petit. Starting in his teens, he has been working with professionals who support him in his artistic endeavors. This period marked the beginning of his independent academic training.
He joined Emile Cohl in 2006. Traditional art education has allowed him to refine his drawing technique through the study of the live model and the human body. To study the human body in detail, he is taking anatomy classes at the medical school. He learns traditional animation techniques and then builds on them using digital tools. During this period, Etienne was painting in oils while studying under painters from the Lyon School. From the age of 13 until he finished school, Etienne was a watercolorist, master glassmaker, and painter. He exhibits and sells his work, illustrates books, and takes on commissions for stained-glass windows.
His first work combining animation and the projection of drawings in an opera was a revelation. No existing studio specializes in video production for the performing arts. In 2012, he co-founded Studio BK with the goal of creating video for the stage. The studio allows Etienne to create works of art that are directly inspired by his personal research.
Studio A+E was founded in 2020. It is the production facility for Etienne’s personal works and his shows. For him, the stage is like a canvas on which he brings his animation work to life with artists and performers from around the world. This originality makes Etienne Guiol a unique and independent artist.
