Emilie Largier (she/her) explores the dialogues between multimedia and performance practices, investigating how movement, sound, light, and image can shape the audience’s perception and experience of reality. Her work is deeply informed by the language of cinema, not only its visual aesthetics, but also its grammar: editing, framing, sound design, and technical approaches. These cinematic languages are explored and transposed into the context of performance and stage direction, creating hybrid forms where filmic techniques intersect with live experience, movement, and spatiality.
Her visual universe draws on carefully composed cinematic images, contrasts of light inspired by classical and contemporary paintings, and deep blacks that reveal light with striking intensity. The work engages with illusion, aiming to create immersive, sensory, and emotional experiences that challenge perception and sensation.
At this pivotal moment in her artistic life, these explorations are being brought together into a cohesive approach: past experiences in visual arts, costume design, theatrical collaboration, and stage research converge to inform a practice at the intersection of scenography, performance, cinema, theatre, and movement. The work is focused on what audiences feel rather than what they intellectually understand, cultivating a shared, transformative space between reality and imagination.
These current research directions define the artist’s ongoing trajectory, shaping the work she is currently developing and the forms she aims to bring to life in the near future.