À la merci is composed by a sound recording presented as an archive. A child dictates words one by one, syllable by syllable forming convoluted sentences that are repeated by an adult voice. This audio document glides doubt over its own reliability. It takes the appearance of a crude sequence that stages an obviously unreal situation: a child barely knowing how to speak dictates long, inaudible and unreadable sentences that in their entirety sound as a writing.

version with subtitles

À la merci (Στο έλεος), À la merci (At the mercy).
In these versions for non-French-speaking countries, the sound stays the same (voices in French). At the side, on another wall, off set from the frontality of the listening, a screen broadcasts the translation of each word a visual transfer resuming the scansion, the stammering and the repetitions of the sentence under construction. 
Greek translation by Annex M and English translation by Miles Hankin.

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