[Reader-list] [Announcements] Les Guetteurs on www.tank.tv 15.04.07 - 30.05.07

[Alice O'Reilly]

tank.tv

www.tank.tv / Saison Video
15th April – 30th May 2007
Les Guetteurs
New Moving Images from France

This month's exhibition has been produced by Saison Video for www.tank.tv.
It examines film and video emerging from France. Saturated in rich artistic
tradition, France's star in the contemporary art world is once again rising
and from the plethora of work coming out of the country Saison Video have
made a selection based around the common theme of the body.

Cécile Wesolowski's video is part of a work (composed of videos and digital
images) which shows a young girl in her everyday life. Her disappointment in
reality has pushed her to recreate a virtual life where her social relations
are purely imaginary and mimed. Girl of my dreams represents the image that
the young girl has of herself as a dancer. She thinks she is talented, but
as her choreography and her flexibility are relatively bad, her dance lesson
ends badly since she injures her foot and abandons her lesson crying.

There are protagonists from different social backgrounds, household staff or
personnel, visibly in a public waiting area in Fabien Rigobert's South
Flower 2. They all seem affected or shaken by an event 'off camera' that we
have no way of interpreting. The characters are in a state of physical
interaction but the poses of the actors are structured around an inner
withdrawal.

Les Guetteurs by Virginie Yassef was made during the football World Cup in
1998 in Paris – Hôtel de Ville. Whilst the final was being transmitted on to
a giant screen positioned too low, a great number of spectators decided
little by little to get higher in order to attend the retransmission of the
match between Brazil and France. The increasing excitement is linked to the
physical ascent of the spectators on the improvised watchtowers and urban
dungeons surrounding the screen all around. No direct image of the match but
the absurd and incredible situation around it and the hunt for a viewpoint.

Each piece features bodies struggling and haunted as they negotiate others,
society, everyday tasks and their own physical reality.  Bodies floating,
immersed, hanging, erotic and elusive.

Artists include : Cécile Wesolowski, Marie Voignier, Jeanne Susplugas, Marie
Reinert, Jean Charles Hue, Virginie Yassef, Armelle Aulestia, Barbara Noiret
and Fabien Rigobert.

Les Guetters is on www.tank.tv from 15th April – 30th May 2007.

With thanks to Eric Deneuville and Mo Gourmelon at L'Espace Croise :
www.espacecroise.com

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