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time, in the end, it’s not quite perfect. Drawing is like a
sport; you have to practice every day to improve yourself.
When we draw sketches of an idea, sometimes the idea will
become something completely different. Maybe one day
we will make an exhibition with all the sketches leading to a
single drawing, just to show the evolution of an idea.
Are you perfectionists?
I am more and more, and Petra less and less; this is a
good average.
Tell me a funny story from the exhibition installation files.
For one exhibition, we made some big wall drawings with a
special black paint. At the end of the exhibition, after they
repainted the walls, the drawings reappeared again and
again, despite the layers of white paint. They didn’t want to
disappear! So finally the gallery resealed the walls, and the
drawings haven’t come back... yet.
Do you have plans to paint any big murals?
We did it one time in Nantes in France, but it was temporary.
It was on a big building under construction. We did a cross-
section of the building, imagining a different scene on every
floor. It was funny, and we would love to do that again,
especially in San Francisco!
Yes, please do! I discovered that I can see your work
very well without my glasses. Did you know that it’s so
ultra visible?
No! We didn’t know that. We are just nearsighted.
Are there bands you’d like to work with or plan to work
with soon?
We have no definite plans for the moment. We are listening
to a lot of different music and are open to proposals. As for
a lot of people, Tame Impala’s last album “put us in the ass”
(as we say in French). This week we’ve been listening to the
first solo album of Nicolas Godin from Air. Beautiful.
I love the “Sing Sang Sung” video you did for Air. It was
uncharacteristically colorful. Did you have a specific
inspiration?
Thanks. We were both born in 1974, and as children, we
watched a lot of cartoons like L’alinéa by Cavandoli, Les
Barbapapas, and Planète Sauvage by Laloux & Topor. “Sing
Sang Sung” reminds us of this period of cartoons with pastel
colors. So we created this simple black ball which wanders
through a strange landscape. Cleo loves watching it.
What are some music videos that moved you, and did you
always want to make them?
The desire to make music videos came very early. We listen
to a lot of music while we’re working, and sometimes the
music fits very well with the drawings we’re working on.
The format is great too. Three minutes is the right duration
because it takes a lot of time to make animations. But we
would love to make an animated movie which uses all the
songs of an album like Pink Floyd’s The Wall.
tuis.
(Tuis.)
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