Jousse Entreprise

Ariane Michel

29 Apr - 29 May 2010

Ariane Michel
3 projections vidéo HD, sonores
installation 2009
Courtesy Jousse Entreprise
ARIANE MICHEL
“Le camp”

29.04.2010 > 29.05.2010
vernissage: 29.04.10: 16h-21h

The second personal exhibition of Ariane Michel in the gallery Jousse Entreprise is going to be inaugurated in our new space in Le Marais 6, rue Saint-Claude, Paris 3éme, on Thursday April 29th from 4 pm till 9 pm.
The camp invites the viewer to experience a strange reality between dream and nightmare: in the middle of a flat landscape, a camp. The air is totally filled with mosquitos. Hidden behind mosquito nets, people work for their survival. A man slices a fresh meatloaf, another one installs a net, there is a child, a fire, a dog. The mosquitos being there, constantly, surrounding them.
W ether she makes installations, performances or simple screenings, video (or film) is recurring in Ariane Michel’s work that intends to create perceptive experiences. Ariane Michel lives in Paris where she was born in 1973, and graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs. Her work has been shown in the contemporary art field (FRAC in Reims, MoMA, New York) as well as film world, (Locarno, IFF Rotterdam or FID Marseilles). Her latest project, THE SCREENING, a performance, was shown as an «Art Statements» project at Art Basel 38. Her recent film LES HOMMES (95’, 2006, Grand Prize for french competition at FID Marseilles 2006) has been theatricly released in France in 2008. In 2010 she has 2 more solo exhibitions in French, Espace Croisé- Roubaix, Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard- Paris, (8 april-12 may)
 

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