ART
Agathe Snow, Harun Farocki, Rodney Graham |
Written 30 January |
Tuesday 07 April, 12:00Jeu de Paume (Concorde), 75008 [map]Agathe Snow, Harun Farocki, Rodney Graham
Agathe Snow was born in Corsica and lives in New York. Her work is based on narratives of environmental collapse, sexual dysfunction, religious or moral decay, and physical disorientation, and simultaneously invokes horror but also suggestions for rescue, celebration, and survival. Her installations typically include one or two large-scale sculptures accompanied by smaller pieces and performances.
"Views From the Top, Vertigo and Constellations" is the fourth phase in a wider project devoted to the spirit of Leonardo da Vinci and the American Dream. The artist has created an installation linking the mezzanine and the basement, and forming a space dedicated to ideas and thought, and “a particular state of mind rid of all superfluous accessories, of boredom, moralism and fatalism; an as yet nameless concept to be considered as an epoch that lies in the future.”
The exhibition "H F | R G" brings together the visions of two important contemporary artists, Harun Farocki and Rodney Graham, whose work have a great deal in common, not least their film and video but also their interest in the medium, its history and self-representation.
Both will present film-based installations reflecting their respective bodies of work and new work for the exhibition.
Rodney Graham was born in 1949 in Vancouver, where he studied history of art, and where he still lives and works today. In his films, videos, photographs, architectural models, books and musical scores, Graham explores the forms and devices determining our perception of art. He analyses the formal and narrative structures of different media in order to subvert them. His references range from Wagner, Edgar Allan Poe, Sigmund Freud, to Alfred Hitchcock and Black Sabbath.
Harun Farocki was born in 1944 in Germany. He studied at the Deutsche Film und Fernsehakademie in Berlin, where he currently lives and works. He began his career as a film director and was editor of “Filmkritik,”. Employing a wide range of media (photographs, drawings, documentary images, films), his own work analyses the convergences of war, economics and politics within the social space. In parallel to this, since the early 1990s, he has been making video installations concerned with the production and processing of images in the media and the institutions that disseminate them.
| What: | Agathe Snow, Harun Farocki, Rodney Graham |
| When: | Tuesday 07 April, 12:00 |
| Where: | Jeu de Paume (Concorde), 1 place de la Concorde 75008 [map] |
| Transport: | Concorde |
| Cost: | 4-6EUR |
| Phone: | 01 47 03 12 50 |
| Web: | www.jeudepaume.org |
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