Comme si tout allait s’arrêter

The work is inspired by the intensity of our modern lives: in our relationships with ourselves, with others, with work, with our phone addiction, and with the virtual world that becomes more and more intertwined with the real one. As we move constantly between the real and virtual spaces it’s hard to know which one shapes us the most. The piece explores that overwhelming tension: how all of this can feel too much, almost apocalyptic at times, as if everything is on the verge of collapsing. That fragile and delicate moment when everything feels on the edge when life becomes so intense and charged and so dense that time almost stands still, as if it holds it’s breath. Another important inspiration for Antonin was the question of power relations, and the “fakeness” that surrounds us, the dehumanization: the masks we wear in society, the ones we put on to protect ourselves , and how hard they can be to remove once they become p[art of our identity. How our environment shapes us and sometimes distorts us.

January 2026