In the video entitled ‘Rooftop’ (2016)the artist performs in a hotel bathroom. 
The artist enters the scene, pushes play and a nostalgic pop song is heard on her laptop. Standing in front 
of a mirror that remains out of view, she begins to move to the rhythm of the music and to do playback 
singing as soon as the voice of Swedish pop singer Zara Larsson is heard. Throughout the video, Verseau 
looks alternately at the camera and at the mirror: two lenses through which she can see, recognise and 
reinvent herself.

The impersonal setting of the hotel room appears as an ideal space in which to project the desired image of 
the self. The YouTube aesthetic – steady shots, scarce technical means and a minimum amount of editing – and 
the choice of medium-sized screens and headphones recreate a space of intimate emotional experience. 
These formal characteristics coexist with learnt gestures appropriated from pop video clips commer cialised 
for teenage audiences.

The artist’s performance is an exercise in reaffirmation that oscillates between the desire for normalisation
and the need to draw attention to difference. It defends the right to a ‘pop adolescence’, free from the 
burden of growing up in between genders in a binary and heteronormative society. It also signals the 
difficulty for all women trans or cis to fit into the normative ideal of femininity defined by patriarchal 
rules. In both videos, the way in which she half smiles is touching, for the act of fantasising reveals her 
shyness at exposing herself to the camera lens, to a future potential audience.

- Curator, Alba Baeza.

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