Sophie Jung, 1982

Art

Rapport du jury

The point of reference of this work, which interweaves performance and installation, is the figure of Cassandra, established by the quotation from antiquity in the title. Taken together, all the objects and their shadowy counterparts, all the explanatory fragments of text— some in an idiosyncratic script—and all the song quotations and fragments of sound, along with the mute mime, the performer’s lip movements and the audibly intoned song “My Own Peculiar Way”, create a pictorial chorus of conflicts. Here lies the work’s quality: in Sophie Jung’s capacity to address her Cassandra themes in the age of “cat-astrophe” in a way entirely befitting the mythologeme of Cassandra from antiquity. Her image performatively narrates the drama of violence and sexuality, social death and political calculation, refusal and self-assertion.