MIRADAS DESVIADAS / REGARDS DEROUTES

COLLECTION "JOURNAUX DE VOYAGE"

of ARAVENA ABUGOSH Claudia

FRANCE, 1992, 00:15:30

Production : CICV PIERRE SCHAEFFER, MINISTERE DES AFFAIRES ETRANGERES
Genre : Video art, Travel Diary
Keyword : Writing, Poetry, Souvenir

Summary :
I would like the earth to be covered in a rain of wings. (V. HUIDOBRO). Along the river, with a fluid look, a woeful young woman looks for appeasement. Here I am on the verge of space and far from circumstances, even more, close to circumstances… I think very, very slowly. Searching is useless, it would be like searching for you in the middle of a hurricane. My eyes still bear the warmth of your tears… Claudia ARAVENA, a Chilean director, arranges time and space in her work through the power of her interior vision which, far from being nostalgic, sensitively captures the fleeting passage of exterior movements.

Shot with the lightest tools by artists sent or invited by France in Latin America, in the Baltic states or in Paris during the video-art festivals organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, those travel diaries were totally free as to form and content in order to leave full play to the feeling of strangeness and the uncertainties of encounters. They benefit from a sophisticated post-production. The result is a strange rhapsody of glances stretching over more than ten years. The collection "Journaux de Voyages" was conceived of and directed by Pascal-Emmanuel GALLET. It is divided into : French diaries in Latin America, Latin American diaries in France, French diaries in Latvia and Balt diaries in France.

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