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Alexandre Bianchini (CH)
exhibition - first floor:
Le chemin des fins, 1998, installation
Do You Remember Tino Ranch, 1999, installation
With Le chemin des fins (The Ways to the Ends, 1998) and Do You Remember Tino Ranch (1999), Alexandre Bianchini has recently revealed certain ambitions for his art that fall more claerly within the domain of the cinema. His installations usually creates peculiar spaces by using multi-screen presentation.
Pierre Bismuth (F)
exhibition - 2nd floor:
Micro/Macro, 1999, installation
"The project consists of placing microphones on the outside of the building where the Center for Contemporary Images is located. These mikes will amplify niose at various points in the street that are relatively distant from one another, although always within a perimeter that is visible from the windows of the Center's second floor. I want people to spend time in front of the windows looking for the corresponding points between what they are offered aurally and the spectacle down in the street." (Excerpt from a letter addressed to Simon Lamunière, 12 July 1999)
Ellen Cantor (USA)
exhibition - first floor:
Madame Bovary's Revenge (The Lovers), 1995, 16 min.
Ellen Cantor's drawings and films are about women, about their desire and sexual life. Using images of well-known actresses taken in specifically intense moments (screaming, orgasm), she introduces personnal texts focusing on the various means of violence used in the production of images of the feminine body. The video Remeber Me as well as a selection of older tapes and drawings will be presented.
Korpys/Loeffler (D)
exhibition - 2nd floor:
Ruhleben, 1999
The two German artists will present a new installation with images and a mannequin. Korpys and Loeffler are interested in creating links beween places and their representations: sometimes they reconstruct spaces, sometimes they live in the spaces that they shoot. Their buildings as well as their images are like mental projections in real space.
Fiona Tan (Indonésie)
exhibition - first floor:
Facing forward, 1999, 11 min.
Her 60-minute documentary film May you live in interesting times is a project in which, for three years, she travelled to visit her family members spread all around the world because of the anti-Chinese turmoil in Indonesia in the 1960s. Using a sophisticated and emotional technique of editing, Tan states "I aim with this project to investigate and hopefully deepen the current discussion of such hashed terms as: multiculturaly, migration and transgression."
In Facing forward, Tan puts the audience into concentrated, face-to-face confrontation with carefully selected silent film footage of a colonial documentary shot in "foreign and exotic" countries. She creates a specific space in which "moments of meeting, not just as meeting of individuals, but of cultures, ideas and times" are brought about.
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