Lucile Littot & Markos Mazarakis-Ainian
Lucile Littot is a French multidisciplinary artist born in Paris in 1985. She has exhibited at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Museo de Arte de Zapopan in Mexico and the Fondation d’entreprise Ricard in Paris.
Markos Mazarakis-Ainian is a Greek musician and composer born in Athens in 1985. He is a member of the Greek psychedelic rock band Acid Baby Jesus, formed in 2009. At the same time, he is developing a solo project under the pseudonym ‘Theremin Jennings’.
Their duo ‘Adieu Dolorès’ was formed in 2022 after a meeting on the Aegean Sea. Lucile Littot’s lyrics, written under the open sky between Los Angeles, Mexico City and Athens, are conceived as a collection of fantastic poems. The melodies in this anthology are composed and produced by Markos Mazarakis-Ainian and blend through the fusion of voices.
Through visual and plastic arts, ‘Adieu Dolorès’, an experimental and sentimental baroque pop duo, pays homage to mythical figures from film and literature, flayed divas and disenchanted generations. A labyrinthine odyssey along the path of a fictional autobiography.
Their first joint work, entitled ‘Conte du Cygne et Sept Autres Histoires Extraordinaires’, was presented in the summer of 2022 in the gardens of the Château du Marais in Val Saint Germain.
Their project at Villa Médicis
In residence at Villa Médicis, Lucile Littot and Markos Mazarakis-Ainian will produce a video work entitled ‘Midnight is gone’. Its narrative scheme is inspired by the stage codes of the Commedia dell’Arte and Italian mannerist cinema known as ‘giallo’. The video will be an integral part of the performance installation ‘La Nuit tous les chats sont Gris’.
©LucileLittot @MarkosMazarakis-ainian
Tales of the Swan and Seven Other Extraordinary Stories – 2022, installation view, dimensions variable, Château du Marais (France)
©GrégoryCopitet