_________ Oil, tea, sugar, tobacco, wood, orchids… How should we look at globalization? How can we learn to see the global chains that put to work, discipline, and circulate around the world the bodies we consume en masse? How can we go beyond the smooth, shiny surface of the finished products that capitalism offers us on its shelves to trace the labyrinthine circuits that encircle the Earth and where the substances of our lives are formed?
Clarisse Pillard, a multidisciplinary artist, and Jean Daniélou, a sociologist, are combining their archives and work in the Reflet Machine collective space this March to explore and make tangible fragments of global choreographies collected from around the world, from the Philippines to Mexico, via Rungis and the Netherlands. Using documents and images gathered from the places where these bodies circulate, Clarisse Pillard and Jean Daniélou blur the market ontologies that establish the order of things, opening up the troubled space of their creation.