Believe in gift is at first of all a poem written in English. It’s about someone who got a blank letter through his door — a kind of gift. It’s also a work about the loss in translation: I translated the poem into French and then sent it to a professionnal French language translator. The idea was to replicate the sign translation myself. When I received the video of the translator, I realized how naive I was and how complicated was sign language. I couldn’t imitate it as I firstly wanted. I decided to use it as a starting point to invent my own private sign language which is more a choregraphical gesture than a proper idiom.
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