video exhibit #7 paris october 2011
Title - We are not young and immortal anymore
Year - 2011
Length - 2’
October 18th=>25th, 2011 - 10am=>7pm - At Gallery Good Friday (Paris 4 - Pont-Marie)
I was offered to make a video and display it at a gallery exhibition with other artists.
“We were young and immortal,” the name of the exhibit, resonated with me during my work with it, prompting me to respond to this idea and how I felt about it.
It made me think about how being a 32 year-old woman doesn’t feel like being young and immortal like I did when I was 19. Today I think differently than when I was younger, for example I make more definite choices and concentrate more energy on my works and their realization.
In fact, I’ve been thinking about how short life is, of how close the possibility of death is to me as I reached my 30’s.
What if we were immortal? Would there be any pressure for us to achieve our dreams? Would we even attempt to respond to that mischievous little voice in all of our heads that asks, “What are you waiting for?” Is death that which spurs us to overcome ourselves?
With this video, I wanted to create a dialgue with the people in the gallery through this question. I also wanted the form of the video to be open enough for various interpretations and responses from the onlooker’s present state of mind. Would they laugh at the silliness of the video by making them wait until a questions appears slowly from behind a cloud? Would they feel touched, surprised, or even threatened by this question?
It was the first time, although not the last, that I enjoyed creating a piece that openly asks an existential question, but which also laughs at itself at the same time.
video exhibit #6 paris april 2011
Title - Tattoo close-up
Year - 2011
Length - 30’ loop
April 7th=>May 15th, 2011 - 10am=>7pm - At Reflex Gallery (Paris 1 - Louvre-Rivoli)
“Tattoo close-up” is a video scenography order by the Reflex Gallery as an addition to their photo and tattoo drawing exhibit entitled “Icon Tattoo”.
Images of close-ups of tattoos move slowly along the surface of mannequins’ bodies, giving the tattoos a kind of mobility that they normally don’t have.
The breathtaking tattoos were painstakingly designed by Luan Vo Quang from Migoii Paris.
video exhibit #5 paris april 2010
Title - Hand-Fool of Desire
Year - 2010
Length - 30’
June 4th, 2010 - 7:30pm=>3:00am - At Gare aux Gorilles (Paris 19 - Corentin Cariou) Event GIRLSMMVIBES - literature readings & Rock.
At the request of theater director Mélanie Mary, and in collaboration with video artists Alexandra Lowe and Kai-Duc Luong, this video was created specifically for adding ambience to a literary rock music event that centered around the theme of sex.
The challenge was to create images that would depict sensuality in such a way as not to be overtly vulgar or ridiculous. We took this to be our guideline throughout the creation process of “Hand-Fool of Desire.”
video exhibit #4 paris april 2010
Title - Flux N°42 Smoking
Year - 2010
Length - 1’30”
April 23rd, 2010 - 7:30pm=>3:00am - At the Gare aux Gorilles (Corentin Cariou)
Event GIRLSMMVIBES - literature readings & Rock
Flux N°42 Smoking is an homage to the Fluxus art movement which created a series of forty-one experimental films (nearly all black and white).
One film in particular - Smoking by Joe Jones - amazed me. It depicts a beautiful cloud of smoke contrasted in slow motion on a black background only to reveal, in the vanishing waves of smoke, the curved shape of a face.
My version plays with the appearance and disappearance of a portrait in smoke. A pure and simple playground.
video exhibit #3 paris mars 2010
Title - 33 years old, Paris 2010
Year - 2010
Length - 7’
March 10th, 2010 - 4pm=>11pm - @ Péniche Cinéma
March 25th=>28th, 2010 - 4pm=>8pm - At Maud’s (Paris-Gambetta)
The intention of this work is to show someone in the privacy of her apartment and thoughts as it is the moment when no exterior look, and no distance from oneself comes to interfere in this freedom of thought and movement.
A woman is alone at her place, in a series of routine and abstract situations.
All the possibilities of video language are used to access the subjective point of view of the character: what her body feels, what her mind is telling her - abstract images, the inner voice of the woman, still close-ups on her eyes and her various facial expressions.
This video is entirely created from a series of photographs, which add a different temporal dimension compared to a video of moving images.
33 years old, Paris 2010 wants to show what its title is suggesting in the most intimate manner.
