Yervant Gianikian et Angela Ricci Lucchi
Rétrospective intégrale / Exposition – Installations
© La Marche de l’homme, installation, 2001 © Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi ©
Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi
Retrospective / Exhibition – Installations
Detailed programme available in Septembre at www.centrepompidou.fr
This event is organised by Cinémas du Département du développement culturel du Centre Pompidou as a part of Festival d’Automne à Paris.
For the last forty years now, the Italian artists Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi have been criss-crossing the globe and embracing the century, from within the confines of their workshop - not dissimilar to an alchemist’s laboratory - in Milan. The images that they regularly send us, in the form of films, videos and installations, are not just new: they are revelations.
Using archive documents but also amateur film footage from the first half of the XXth century, painstakingly sought out and collected, these images then find themselves being be reframed, shifted, refocussed, colorized or slowed. Freed from the glaring eyes and ideologies of their authors, these now disalienated images of our past mark a return, but are different now, as if we were seeing them for the first time.
The artisans behind this revelatory work have taken full note of the revolution that cinema and its by-products has brought about, and of their new-found impetus as arts of our times. With them, the century has become an experience which we live through, film and watch simultaneously. Its images endure, return. Spanning colonization, fascism, imperialism and war, these artists have created a continuity of a unique kind between past, present and future. Via a dual, mysterious effect of this magic spell, the rediscovered time makes history once again. And its images, returned to their former wild - shocking - state, become poetic ones.
At the invitation of the Centre Pompidou and in association with the Festival d’Automne, Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi present us here with a complete retrospective of their fifty films, as well as a new film specially commissioned for the occasion. This will be accompanied by an exhibition dedicated to their installations, the first of its kind in France following the Venice Biennale, the New York MoMA and the Hangar Bicocca in Milan.
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Mathilde Monnier Territoires
In Territoires, Mathilde Monnier will be taking over the galleries of the Centre Pompidou during the course of a weekend in order to bring us a piece that deals with memory and circulation, "a collection of gestures from her work over the past thirty years". In doing so, the choreographer sets up the possibility of playing out memory in the present, from now onwards, or by means of anticipation.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul Complete retrospective of films and videos
Apichatpong Weerasethakul presents the complete retrospective of his films at the Centre Pompidou. It consists of his eight feature films, thirty or so short (and rare) films, various collective works, and two feature films produced by him.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul Night Particles
The Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul is guest at the Festival d'Automne and Centre Pompidou. His exhibition, featuring around ten video installations, transforms the former solarium into a nocturnal space inhabited by biographical and architectural reminiscences.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul A Conversation with the Sun (VR), extended edition
The Thai filmmaker's second foray into performance art, A Conversation with the Sun (VR), extended edition, presented in Paris in a new version enhanced by a third part, uses virtual reality to create the conditions for a collective dream.
Ligia Lewis Still Not Still
In Still Not Still, choreographer Ligia Lewis pursues her exploration into the silences and shadows of history. In this piece, the performers play out a score over and over again, the burlesque dimension of which makes it all the more tragic.
Forced Entertainment Signal to Noise
Over its forty years of existence, with Tim Etchells at the helm, the company has never stopped reinventing itself. And it continues to do so. Amidst an oscillating form of virtual reality, six performers find themselves deprived of their voices and their entire beings. The whole thing goes beyond all understanding... Welcome to this new world.
Sébastien Kheroufi Par les villages
Sébastien Kheroufi discovered Peter Handke's Par les villages at the onset of his artistic career. It evokes a writer's return to his native village. Amidst the twilight setting in which one universe declines in favour of another, the voices of the “offended and humiliated” break their silence.