Believe in Gift is, first of all, a poem written in English. It is about someone who receives a blank letter through their door — a kind of gift. It is also a work about loss in translation. I translated the poem into French and then sent it to a professional French sign language translator. The idea was to replicate the sign translation myself. When I received the translator’s video, I realized how naïve I had been and how complex sign language is. I couldn’t imitate it in the way I had initially intended. I therefore decided to use this as a starting point to invent my own private sign language, which is more a choreographic gesture than a proper idiom.
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