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Marcelline Delbecq
/ ext 17 / June 2006

Paris-based artist Marcelline Delbecq has gradually moved away from photography to focus on the cinematic potential of writing. She uses both narrative and narrator (the voice) to create a singular world where a writing turned into sound generates a series of mental images which move back and forth between description and pure fiction. Her own voice — which she often uses in sound installations, publications and readings — acts like a voice-over for various ‘invisible cinema’ projects where words, transformed into visions, call the whole act of beholding into question.


For ext. 17, Marcelline Delbecq presents part of her on-going Juke-box Project (started in 2003), featuring spoken covers of songs she has never heard. Solo, Over, Swim and There (originally sung under different titles by Deep Purple, James Brown, Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra) will be successively played through ext. 17, turning the phone device into a live, unexpected and virtual rock’n roll compilation.

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