Overview

Identity is a rumor, until death writes it down (2027) marks the opening chapter of the choreographic and literary prodrome Autotherapie.

If Autotherapie (2025) established the foundations of a practice engaging therapy, self-portraiture, and Haitian spiralism as both a mode of thought and a compositional method, this new work narrows the focus while intensifying its stakes. It is not a return,but a shift. A descent into a denser zone, where the self-portrait moves beyond a space ofexpansive exploration to become a site of rumor and a testing ground for identity.

Intent

Starting from a narrative of the self, hollowed out by intimate lacunae and the fractures of History, this solo unfolds as an unstable gallery of intimate and historical self-portraits. Between portraiture, history painting, fairy tale, vanitas, altarpiece, tableau vivant and missing archive, Identity is a rumor, until death writes it down opens a chamber of hauntings where painted, absent or lost bodies begin again to negotiate their apparition. Gradually unmoored from any assignable identity, these self-portrait-rumors stitch themselves together like fragments of a desired genealogy.

At the crossroads of visual art, poetry and choreography, Identity is a rumor, until death writes it down also scrutinizes our small daily deaths — those moments when identifying oneself amounts to dying to oneself — and reads within them the tensions between inheritance, desire, loss and relation, whispering differently what the title already murmurs: perhaps identity is only a rumor, until death, the archive or History attempts to write its form.