Mona Varichon
Corps à cor, Le film, 2025
 

Corps à cor, Le film is a video between reportage and art film, made by Mona Varichon in 2021 during her residency at the Capc as part of the Furtifs programme. Over a two-month period, the artist worked with and developed close ties with a group of apprentice horn players from the Bordeaux Conservatoire. Trained as a horn player herself, the artist went to meet the students and their teachers to discuss their relationship with the horn, a little-known instrument. 

Evoking in turn their musical tastes, their relationship with the instrument, what it does to their bodies and their breath, the film traces their relationship with music, while documenting the preparation and interpretation of a performance imagined by the artist. Their collaboration culminated in a concert that they presented in the heart of the Capc nave on October 24th, 2021, freely inspired by American parades and combining pop music and the Romantic repertoire. This performance, which echoed works in the Capc, notably through the musicians' costumes and their journey through the museum, was accompanied by dancers from the HKM hip-hop troupe and the Bordeaux Conservatoire, led by choreographer Lydia Laouichi. 

Mona Varichon
Born in 1989 in Paris, Mona Varichon is an artist and translator based in Paris.
After earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute and a Master’s degree from ArtCenter in Los Angeles, Mona Varichon relocated to Paris in September 2019. Her videos have recently been shown on Renaissance TV by the Renaissance Society, Chicago; at the Goethe-Institut Thailand, Bangkok; at u’s gallery, Diamond Valley, Alberta; at the Capc Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux; High Art, Paris; the experimental cinema l’Etna, Montreuil; the Redcat Theatre and the Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles; at Fiesta Hall in Plummer Park and the Egyptian Theatre, Hollywood.
Mona Varichon was recently an artist-in-residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts.

Mona Varichon was in residence from 1 September to 31 October 2021. 
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An artist is regularly invited to present a work, with no restrictions on duration, subject or genre. Artist and essayist Aria Dean was invited to design the architectural setting for the programme. She covered the walls and floors with red carpet, reminiscent of those typically found in cinemas, and also designed a lighting scheme for the corridor leading to the screening room.

Programme 2025
• Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel, La fille qui explose (2022) – from 4 March au 4 May 2025
• Mona Varichon, Corps à cor, Le film, 2025 – from 6 May to 6 july 2025