Problèmes de localisation

After leaving art school, Élise Legal travelled through a world of economic crises, political absurdities and ecological anxieties. It’s a world in which she now has to legitimise her artistic approach by turning it into fiction.

Problèmes de localisation contains seven texts, made up of critical analyses, personal accounts and poems, recounting her entry into an environment where bodies, goods, information and capital circulate. Élise Legal travels by car, carpool, train, bus or plane, discovering what this world of transactions and fluidity does to language. She seeks to understand how language is embodied, exchanged and inhabited in the voices of airline pilots, start-ups and the President of the French Republic, in legal texts, grant application forms, in the words of teachers, in texts of critical theory and in the poetry of bankers.