Inspired by surrealist painter René Magritte’s The Gigantic Days—featuring a nude female figure clutched by a suited man ‘springing’ from her flesh—the latest self-directed video from electro-pop artist Yanis sees dancers Annick Schadeck and Léonore Zurfluh in a kinetic embrace on the beach. With choreography by Cathy Ematchoua, the woman behind MIA's dashboard-banging "Bad Girls" video, the singer-cum-director attempts to crystallize desire in a physical moment, one he describes as “tender, violent, masculine and feminine at the same time."

Yanis plays La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, on December 10th.