Ambidextrous anathema is a performance about faceless pain and anonymous epigenetic.
From motionless silence to ventriloquist movements until nonverbal friction, Sylvain Souklaye channels and transmits a quiet and inner pain to an entertained and amnesic audience.

When everything is known, can be seen and is already forgotten or cancelled, what is left to process and understand?
When social justice and immediate morals are digitally automated, framed into a capitalistic data-log, what is left in the citizens' hands?

Ambidextrous anathema is a ritual performance about feeling, thinking and choosing our behaviours. Clicking, scrolling and swapping are not simple gestures, they are a design which builds passivity, diminishes empathy and establishes a confusion between social codependency and societal perdition. With Ambidextrous anathema, Sylvain Souklaye regains momentarily control of his fingertips, hands, muscles, blood, pain and humanity. This moment between the performer and you is an attempt at awakening intimate collectiveness.

Quit your screen. Take the time.
Take a deep breath. Watch your hands.
Start to feel and touch them.
Let it go.
Don't come back.