at the Visual Arts Gallery of the University of Laval
Manif d’art presents
La programmation vidéo Toi/You, The Meeting
April 24 to May 14, 2008
Opening April 24 at 5 p.m
Université Laval: Visual Arts Gallery
La Fabrique, 295 boulevard Charest Est
Hours:
Wednesday to Friday, 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m.
Emerging
 Photo : © Nancy Belzile |
L’insondable et la part du mythe, 2007 Nancy Belzile (Montréal, Québec) Animated film |
| Strange and singular sequences. Characters that go looking for black masses, indefinable seas of ink, like abyssal fluids. Moving images whose chopped narration evokes the mysteries of eroticism and a phantasmal universe. Charm, attraction, resistance… |
Emerging
 Photo : © Mathieu Latulippe |
Actions bescherelliènes #2, 2007-2008 Mathieu Latulippe (Montréal, Québec) Video |
| Would Bescherelle agree with this endeavour to outwit common sense and give rise to the unforeseen? Like in the theatre of the absurd, Actions bescherelliènes #2 is a video that seeks to question the fake and overplayed side of our relationships. It takes the form of a guessing game that creates fictional interaction between the virtual character and the spectator. |
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Flying Deutchman, 2006 Marion Mahu (Boulogne-Billancourt, France) Video |
| She is interested in Gombrowicz, Beckett, Camus… In non-sense, in the absurd that makes up our human nature. Here, a man and a woman find themselves engaged in confrontation and thoroughly confused. They want to spit at each other, and they pitifully fail… |
 Photo : © Alix Pearlstein |
All Day and a Night, 2005 Alix Pearlstein (New-York, États-Unis) Video |
| In prison talk, All day and a night means a life without parole. The story takes place in an installation by Simon Foreman. The interior of an intensely lighted white cube is seen from a small window. Four characters take their places. One acts as a guide while the others seem engaged in various therapeutic experiments. The entry of a fifth character upsets the rhythm of these enigmatic exchanges. |
 Photo : © Simone Stoll |
Missing You, 2007 Simone Stoll (Francfort, Allemagne) Video |
| In the absence of one’s lover an insupportable solitude gives way to scenes of private solitude in its raw state. The body becomes the medium with which to express a fragile psychology. In an area beyond words, desire and lack trigger the urgency to reinvent one’s self-image. |