ART
Mathilde Rosier |
Written 30 January |
Tuesday 09 February, 12:00Jeu de Paume (Concorde), 75008 [map]Mathilde Rosier
Mathilde Rosier makes artworks that are decidedly uncontemporary. Without resorting to nostalgia, they seem nevertheless out of time. They are also, one could say, out of place, exploring as they do the slippery border between theatre and the real, nature and culture. In the film Entr’acte (2003), made in collaboration with Polish artist Paulina Olowska, the colours of the film blend in with the patina of the walls to form the yellowed shades of a bygone era. The film’s “action” has been thus described: “The filmic image, nearly as static as a Baroque tableau, depicts the conservatory of a palace which opens on to a park. In the film, Rosier herself sits at a piano, immersed in playing seemingly unrelated tones. A young man poses beside her, stretched out motionless in an armchair as if deep in sleep. The simple scene reveals from time to time, the outline of a figure who wanders through the semi-darkness outside.”
Recalling the filmic tradition of both
Luis Buñuel and
Marguerite Duras, the film’s decadent interior opening onto a window of lush nature announces what are recurrent motifs in Rosier’s oeuvre: the nearly immobile and highly oneiric scene uses many of art history’s known conventions (tableaux vivant, painterliness, landscape, portraiture) to question the actuality of the “real.” Moreover, in that film, as in so many of her others, a temporality that barely conforms to the conventions of motion pictures makes the image carrier of a tension between its theatricality and its almost suspended action.
Extending her interest in the theatrical, Rosier constructs an elaborate, newly commissioned installation in three parts for the Jeu de Paume: including a film made in the countryside in which a theatrical stage is the backdrop, an exact reconstruction of the film stage in the Jeu de Paume, and various props from the film brought to the actual space of the exhibition.
| What: | Mathilde Rosier |
| When: | Tuesday 09 February, 12:00 |
| Where: | Jeu de Paume (Concorde), 1 place de la Concorde 75008 [map] |
| Transport: | Concorde |
| Cost: | 5 - 7EUR |
| Phone: | 01 47 03 12 50 |
| Web: | www.jeudepaume.org |
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