STATUS: “The position of an individual in relation to another or others, especially in regard to social or professional standing.” (Dictionary.com)
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Five Friends plunge into verbal jousting structured by the architecture of social media. One-upmanship drives a formatted “exchange” that, as it unfolds, transforms into a brief treatise on ergonomics as conceived in the Web 2.0 era – poses adopted so they’ll be tagged by the like-minded, movements undertaken to rack up more followers, minor manipulations destined to make your profile more attractive… all exercises in flexibility conducted to expand and exaggerate a “me” that is gigantic, sensational, inimitable and thus enviable. “I” reigns supreme in the realm of overrepresentation.

My motto: art for art
Passion: cinema
Style: no idea what to call it (…)
Drink: Gin tonic
Restaurant: Cuisine bionique
Music: Léo Ferré

Initially friendly and indeed hilarious, the interface dissected by Guillaume Corbeil gradually reveals its pernicious nature as the screen reflecting the protagonists deteriorates to reveal, pixel by pixel, their dismal Status. Liquid crystals of acute distress.

Claude Poissant’s staging skilfully exploits a paradoxical script rich in insignificant words, ripe with an underlying profound emptiness. It is performed by Julie Carrier-Prévost, Laurence Dauphinais, Francis Ducharme, Mickaël Gouin and Ève Pressault, profile versus profile as they face the spectators. Rooted in a space strewn with clothing, the five thirty-somethings flog their virtual selves, which appear as images on the backdrop. The procedure thus transcends its essence and allows both social media enthusiasts and neophytes to check their account.