Cyril Meroni

Cyril Meroni was born in Marseille.

He studied music and toured with an electro rock band for 8 years, both as a drummer and a video director.

A special effects man for documentary films on television (arte), he creates his first art works when joining the artistic group "Anonymal" which films the testimonies of inhabitants living in rough neighbourhoods.


This project, close to the idea of "relational aesthetics" developed by Nicolas Bouriaud, leads him to direct films supported by the French ministry of culture in Pakistan, Bosnia, England, Senegal as well as in France.


He then works as a director for fashion shows (IMM, ELLE Belgique) and concerts of classical music.

Since 2007, his work focuses essentially on artistic projects and video performances made in collaboration with dancers, fashion designers, theatre directors and musicians: Fred Sathal, Danton Eeprom, Ballet National de Marseille, Cie l’individu, Via Lab, KOMM'N'ACT.

Cyril Meroni is also a video manager for many festivals: actOral, Le Festival International du documentaire, Seconde Nature, EXIT festival, Le Fond Régional d’Art Contemporain PACA.


© Cyril Meroni

Submerso

Francisco Medeiros, Cyril Meroni, Ana Martins

Work deriving from PARALLÈLE 02 residencies

Ana Martins (Portugal): choreography, dance
Francisco Medeiros (Portugal): sound design
Cyril Meroni (France): video, set design

A proposal by KOMM’N’ACT, in co-production with Système Friche Theatre - la Friche la Belle de Mai, supported by Theatre Durance, in Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban and Theatre de la Balsamine, in Brussels.


Submerso resulted from the meeting of three artists with different disciplines.
The creation involved a series of residencies in Europe initiated and proposed by KOMM’N’ACT.

Submerso is most probably an area in your head or near the sea, whose boundaries keep changing. Its outline is blurred, what is inside it is dark. Submerso is our flaw. It's a tension that ceaselessly grows with no apparent reason. It derives from a movement, a look, a presence, between the lines of what is being said, performed, danced.


© Cyril Meroni


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