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GALERIE CHANTAL CROUSEL: Melik Ohanian - DAYS, I See what I Saw and what I will See Thomas Hirschhorn - 10 Sept 2011 to 8 Oct 2011 Current Exhibition |
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Melik Ohanian DAYS, I See what I Saw and what I will See September 10 - October 8, 2011 The Galerie Chantal Crousel is pleased to announce the third solo exhibition of Melik Ohanian at the gallery. In the centre of the exhibition, a specific installation has been designed for the gallery space to screen his new film DAYS, I See what I Saw and what I will See. In the continuity of Ohanian’s conceptual approach to cinema, DAYS, I See what I Saw and what I will See , explores the notion of producing a continuous representation of space and a discontinuous representation of time – at the same time. The film was shot over 11 days from February 24 to March 6, 2011 in a Labour Camp in Sajaa, Sharjah, UAE. Melik Ohanian built 100 metres of tracks to make traveling shots. He installed the tracks through the course of the day and then filmed 100 metres in approximately 4 minutes. The next day, he dismantled the tracks, re-assembled them, moved 100 metres ahead, and filmed again. He did this for 11 consecutive days, shooting both during the day and at night. The incremental editing of daily recordings produced two singular plans séquences representing 1100 metres of space and 42 minutes of time. Executed on the occasion of the 10th Sharjah Biennial, this project experienced many twists and turns throughout its implementation. On March 14, on the eve of the opening of the Sharjah Biennial 10, a day version and a night version of the film were planned to be projected at the same time, on both sides of a screen built specially for the occasion, outdoors and far away from the official exhibition spaces of the Biennial. Due to complex and somewhat obscure reasons and despite numerous proposals by the artist, the projection was suspended. Then, the film was planned to be projected one day after the closing of the Biennial on May 17 but on April 6, came the sudden and brutal announcement that the Biennial’s Director Jack Persekian was dismissed. Melik Ohanian decided not to go back to Sharjah and the film was never screened there. Finally DAYS, I See what I Saw and what I will See , is screened for the first time here in Paris. As the film, seven new Selected Recordings, unique photographs (124 x 187 cm), and Futuring , a metal and glass sculpture, question the notions of territory, time and space, thereby revolving around the projection of DAYS, I See what I Saw and what I will See. The exhibition is scheduled on a one-hour cycle: the films are shown simultaneously at the beginning of each hour of the day, for a period of 42 minutes. During the projection, the other works of the exhibition are plunged into darkness. At the end of the projection, the light illuminates again the exhibition during the last 18 minutes of the hourly cycle. La Douane Thomas Hirschhorn Equality Float Sept. 22, 2011 - Nov. 25, 2011 La Douane / Galerie Chantal Crousel is pleased to announce the exhibition of Thomas Hirschhorn, “Equality Float”. The eponymous work represents a carnival float measuring 21 metres long by 6 meters wide. Produced for and presented at MACRO, Vigo in 2008, the work is exhibited here for the first time in France. “Equality Float” is an allegory of the community, highlighting both its ills and their remedies; a reflection on the notions of equality / inequality. It is a theme that the artist explores through the interaction of opposites, of political and philosophical essays (Spinoza, Deleuze, Bataille, Gramsci). The work is paired with a text of the German philosopher Marcus Steinweg, with whom Thomas Hirschhorn has worked during the past ten years, specially commissioned to be included in the work. During the exhibition, a comprehensive librabry composed of the bibliography of the work, preparatory drawings and other methodological notes is available for consultation to the visitors. Thomas Hirschhorn is representing Switzerland at the 54th Venice Biennale |
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