"Totally Composite" is a project by Sara Domenach, carried by the association Parcours. It is part of a participatory artistic research undertaken since 2024. The artist develops a practice that combines visual creation, performance and collective actions in order to question the way representations contribute to shaping social and political imaginaries.
Disquiet. After La Cène, Domenico Ghirlandaio, 1486, Florence. ; Crédits : Marine Saiah Vocation à l'atelier. After La Vocation de saint Matthieu, Le Caravage, 1600, Rome. ; Crédits : Sara Domenach
Through workshops, encounters and visits to emblematic sites, the project questions the place of citizens in contemporary republican representations. Dressed in capes, flags or headdresses evoking their cultural heritages, participants occupy institutional and heritage spaces to re-enact, subvert and reinvent the visual codes of power. Drawing on references to art history, cinema and the practices of quotation specific to contemporary art, these staged scenes propose new collective narratives.