Eyes in Headlights
From Claire Veysset
Claire Veysset is welcomed at Avatar for the Avatar/Phonurgia Nova residency from October 12 to 25, 2025.
Is a road a place? We might wonder this while simply passing through, since the main function of a road is to be a passage. A car gives almost complete access to the terrain and at the same time seems to offer a reclusion from the outside. In this documentary radiophonic work, Veysset is interested in species and spaces that are marginalized by road development. Through recordings, she seeks to reappropriate these places, exploring them alone or in the company of those already familiar with them.
By giving attention to erased traces and presences, the fragility of thresholds becomes a sensory experience: a call to perceive what exists on the side of our roads, on the edge of our observation, and to give voice to places we often pass through without actually experiencing them.
Claire Veysset
Claire Veysset is a French sound composer-director born in 1990. In the past decade, she has explored sound composition in various forms: fiction, documentary, radio broadcasting, installation, and performance.
In recording, listening to, selecting, and assembling her sound material, she pays attention to both form and ground, which mutually enrich each other. She views the creative sound documentary as an echo chamber, a field of exploration, and an indicator of the acoustics of places and the lives inhabiting them.
Her work has been presented in festivals (including Longueur d’ondes, Les Yeux Ouverts, Rencontres du film documentaire in Mellionnec, and Groix International Island Film Festival), on the radio (including Radio Campus Paris, RTBF, Jet FM, Jade FM, and Canal B), and in movie theatres (Arvor in Rennes, Jacques Tati in Saint-Nazaire, Le Zola in Villeurbanne).
She lives and works in Saint-Nazaire, in Loire-Atlantique.
