: Blind Song (Christian Barani / Bertrand Gauguet): video installation trebles screen (30 ) on 2010

Press release - Invitation

Coming from the common job of two artists, this installation is the fruit of an experience shared during a stay in the region of Karpaz, located in the north part of Cyprus. Triple projection gives an account of the complexity of situation such as the artists felt it on place. Taken by a carried camera, the sometimes chaotic pictures restore the constant astonishment of the artists, who worked in improvisation. In the listening of his inhabitants and his landscapes, the situation of Cyprus avoids a binary simplification which would reduce the history of the island to a division between two nationalities.
Left without ideas a priori job that they are going to lead, , French video director and , (teacher in the Quay - College of higher education of art of Mulhouse) French musician, gathered the statements of the inhabitants: Greek Turkish, Kurdish and Cypriot Cypriots some some of the very rare Greek Cypriots to have supported their presence since 1974 in the north part of Cyprus, in spite of pressures and loss of their civil rights. Assemblage blends these stories which, independently of nationalities, introduce here the same impotence. They report a similar violence, led by powers which seem abstract facing the daily reality of the individuals. A ditch between official history and individual history is discovered.
By letting appear policy of these words, the artists testify what each lost, and of what each is subjected to. The soundtrack sometimes gives to understand Cypriot traditional songs, known by all inhabitants of the former island on 1974.
Grabbing the vulnerability of a living room, the contrasts between the secondary houses of Western European rich men and the poverty of the filmed Cypriot houses, the artists question buildings and architecture, primordial tools and symbolisms of the taking over of a territory. These are also landscapes in which the artists immerse themselves, letting see a dried earth holder of history, of suffering and of humanity.
Charl ne Dinhut

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Collective Exhibition The real, new opium?

Exhibition from 4 till 27 February 2010 - Private view on Thursday, February 4th of 18 h 30 - 21
Performances on Saturday, February 20th of 17 h 30 - 19

Having invited by the gallery The girls of the Calvary, the collective It Is a good new present an exhibition which questions the real as fictionnel principle around the writings of more than about twenty video directors and of a dozen writers.

Video directors: Soufiane Adel, Christian Barani, Taysir Batniji, Yann Beauvais (teaching the Quay), Edson Barrus, Raphael Boccanfuso, Ann - Mary Cornu, Fran ois Daireaux, Frederick Dumond, Jan Duyvendak, Agn s Geoffray, Julien Gourbeix, Patrick H brard, Daniel L , Sabine Massenet, Sara Millot, Eleanor de Montesquiou, Fran oise Parfait, patrickandr depuis1966, Alex Pou, Jean-Claude Taki, Brigitte Zieger.

Writers: Emmanuel Adely, Fran ois Bon, Arno Calleja, Sonia Chiambretto, David Christoffel, Sophie Coiffier, Louise Desbrusses, Frederick Dumond, Jean-Michel Espitallier, J r me Game, Fred Griot, Cyrille Martinez.

Gallery The daughters of the Calvary
17 Street des Filles-du-Calvaire Paris
T l: +33 (0) 1 42 74 47 05
On Tuesday-Saturday / 11h-18h30

4 dead end Delaunay Paris

Engravings and drawings , from February 6th till March 28th, 2010
Across their engravings and their drawings, Sabine and Daniel Clochey (teachers in the Quay) describe the daily with a brought forward look, a particular perception which gives him a poetic form. He creates one then tenderness unexpected between the visitor and ordinary objects. It is here about a single, the time stretches there, silence fills with evaporations of the hanging linen, place settings put down for these instants which punctuate the day. Silence fills with a patience when a spiral of copper takes place at the head of the chisel to say a daily without mixture.

Meeting with Sabine and Daniel Clochey, on Saturday, 13 and 20, February at 15 h
The artists offer you a meeting - discovery of their exhibition where the time stretches, a freeze-frame, a cut far from surrounding noise to plunge us back towards the basics.

Museum of the Fine arts of Mulhouse
4 Place Guillaume Tell
68100 Mulhouse
03 89 33 78 11
Free entrance

On the occasion of a week of workshops with guest artists, The Quay opens you its doors the time of an artistic and festive party when will chain themselves visual and sound performances, exhibitions, jobs of students and tastings.

Edges of Quay #11

On Thursday, January 28th from 19 h 30

With in riot Mark Bembekoff, Michel Giroud, Sebastian Gschwind, Eric Hurtado, Matthieu Husser, Christian Kempf, J r me Noetinger, Marjoram Pigeon, Alexandra Roussopoulos, Christian Savioz, J rg St euble, the workshop mediation, etc.

The Quay, college of higher education of art of Mulhouse
3, Quay of the fishermen 68200 Mulhouse (access parking Leclerc)
03 69 77 77 20 - esa@lequai.fr