Vidéo 1 | L’idée

Vidéo 2 | Floraison de celle-ci

“Why paint this thing that I have in front of me when it already exists and that even by arriving at an unprecedented realism it is impossible for me to transcribe identically. Playing on a humorous note if this all comes to nothing, why not make it even more absurd and paint on the thing I’m trying to paint. From there this project started: “¿Pintura pa’que? (Painting for What?)

¿Pintura pa’que? questions the point of view of the spectator by dictating that it is impossible to transcribe reality as it is. Everyone has their own, there is no universal reality that could be reproduced. By covering the installation with a new layer of paint, I appropriate it by imposing my reality on that of others. The installation no longer has a common appearance to all but only has one specific, mine, my point of view.

From this same reflection of appropriation, ¿Pintura pa’que? responds to personal questions of identity by questioning the relationship to nationalism and patriotism in our societies. Coming from three historically rival cultures, Spanish, Catalan and French, I have never had or understood these feelings of belonging. By covering the installation with a new coat of paint, I make it mine and I create a space that belongs to me.

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« The rain went through my clothes » is a short video where a character evolves in a tropical scenery. During this walk we follow a young girl pacing through the rain. Strange noises are rythming her journey. Dogs barking further away, the sound of a rooster crow, all those elements will drive the character into a mystical wandering.

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Video 1 | Poang

Video 2 | Champion

The Conformist is the character played by Emile Copello. 

A standard male individual whose capacity of duplication is unlimited. Well behaved; the performance in order to stay inside the frame is endless and seems to itch the protagonist sometimes.Until now he stands still.

The armchair, the body and the television are summed in an all-in-once object. The show turns around on himself and the lonely individual watching it is unveiled.

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This is the story of a film which has only cost 37 euros. The price of a beige velvet suit found on a flea market and a pair of santiags bought on internet.

This film questions the inability to develop a narrative. By borrowing from the cinema – through references and technical processes – well known and stereotyped narrative patterns, but without ever proposing a precise scenario, the film constantly stutters and keeps the viewer in a spatio-temporal loop that freezes the story. A man gets out of a car and enters a hotel. From this simple pitch, the film integrates the multiple possible narrative choices and the hesitations as to the arrangement of the shots, the form ends up guiding the content.

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« Stabbat Metro » is the scene of an esoteric cult that has just carried out a fatal ritual in its chapel located in a forgotten room under the subway. 

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Video 1 | Grande bouche

Video 2 | Kiana, 21 ans, étudiante

Video 3 | Selfie mode

As a distorting mirror, reality television shows me an image of reality. Empathy, envy, rejection, dreaming… What do TV and social networks convey ? What do the media tell about me, about my generation, about French society and how to situate myself as a spectator ? Through makeup and editing, I reappropriate bodies and images. In this era of drama, egotrip and filters, amongst these unrealistic yet so familiar representations of women, I look for intimacy where poetry and apparent vulgarity meets.

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« Ladies & gentlemen, may I have your attention ». A voice seizes Saclay Nuclear Research Center’s speakers. Micro-fictions takes place in the ruins of the Cyclotron and HW3, the nuclear reactor – haunted by the ghosts of Irene & Frederic Joliot-Curie. The architecture inspires the narrative as well as it wears the symptoms of the ideology from which it has been formed. A rationalist temple built by the pope of rational classicism, Auguste Perret. Through critical fascination it shows how ideology build a construct of forms. Here, within the frame of postwar propaganda – this national narrative of which science and research were fundaments – which somewhen take fictional forms, from myths to science-fiction.

The video « Very active on my Geiger counter » talks about Autunite.

Autunite is a stone who was discovered in 1800 by Joseph-François de Champeaux in the Autunian basin. In a way, it is Superman’s Kryptonite: radioactive and fluorescent to UV light. At that time, before Marie Curie extracted and discovered uranium from Autunite and Pechblende, people would use this stone to tint glass a luminous greenish-yellow and produce chic Baccarat crystal sets.

Today, autunite testers abound on YouTube. But it is almost impossible to differentiate between them professionals and amateurs.

The medium of the video allows to show this mineral during chemical experiments by the one who search. These observations made available on YouTube sometimes give it sensitive visual properties close to concrete or optical art. By inadvertence, by interest, those who search in the name of curiosity, of science, of an artistic practice make the portrait of this radioactive fruit.

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This room is where people come to gather.

It’s also where people have heard about the news and share their vision of the world.

It’s a space full of flowers and the vestiges of parties, in which we tried to revive those who are no longer alive. It’s a place where ghosts hang out with the living, and we don’t really know who’s who.

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It’s 1901 – the press report a startling find in as yet uncharted seas. They tell of a team of explorers who, after weeks of seemingly aimless wandering, arrive in a mysterious country and make an extraordinary discovery: a fantasy being: half nymph, half witch. The discovery of this strange creature becomes a legend: “The Woman from the End of the Seas”. Or is she only a myth, an illusion, the hoax of the century! Who knows…
The story plunges us into a fairground universe close to the pre-cinema area. A short format, on the border between the music video and the trailer.

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Henri Zürn is a musician. Romain Silvi is a filmmaker. One asks the other to work together on a piece of video and music art. Away from each other, a restless mind and a fragile health, they are going to pursue the truth that is burried somewhere inside the tropisms.

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« ShaneShadow » deals with many subjects but particularly with social phobia and anxiety disorder through its character Shane, a gamer who streams her video games online.

After the theft of her bike, she will do everything to find it, without ever leaving her screen. Through collages, editing of images captured on the Internet, and the use of cracked surveillance cameras, the video will tell us about the uneasiness and the suffering that Shane will undergo, victim of her community and trapped in her head.

(An other installation visible at the Centre d’Art de Nice (until December 30th) which accompanies this video allows us to enter Shane’s universe and her room, the place where she spended all her time in order to try to understand what she might be feeling.)