filmed by JEJ for FACADES
Latin Urban Art
filmed by JEJ for FACADES
Mixed Media Installation by Paulo Nazareth 2013
Drawing inspiration from his mixed heritage and tangled colonial past of the Americas, Nazareth creates profoundly social works that involves encounters in Brazilian favelas, extended stays with indigenous Guarani communities, and most often the people he meets while walking.
Nazareth performs through his immediate environment-deconstructing his own position in the world with an ad hoc vocabulary that allows him to engage with a place and its people through the local materials he finds...
filmed by JEJ for FACADES
Art Installation 2013
in iron, wood, hay, words
Marco Paolini is an Italian stage and screen actor, director, dramaturge, and playwright. In his theatrical work, for which he is principally recognised, Paolini practises what is known as a narrative theatre, a mono logical style in which traditional methods of staging-actors, sets, and costumes-are jettisoned in favour of a single narrator-actor who relates a tale to the audience...
Video installation filmed by JEJ for FACADES
"Ravel Ravel" & "Unravel"
Curated by Christine Macel
The title of the piece is a subtle play on words based on the verb to ravel and its opposite, to unravel, as well as a reference to the famous French composer Maurice Ravel, who in 1930 composed the Concerto for the Left hand for piano & orchestra.
The 2 works Unravel & Ravel Ravel, conceived by Anri Sala for the French pavilion, generate a three-fold narration...
filmed by JEJ for FACADES
Video Art 2013
Bouchra Khalili's works often challenge dominant narratives by examining-through documentary-style videos, installation, and photographs-instances of mass exile and immigration. Over the past ten years, Khalili's work has focused on alternative strategies of empowerment for those denied nationality in both a visual and discursive manner...
interview/filmed by JEJ for FACADES
filmed by JEJ for FACADES
video installation filmed by JEJ for FACADES
Rosebuds 2013
James Richards's videos and installations cull an intimate dreamlike vision from massive stores of visual information. Pieced together from sources including You Tube, LUX's moving image archive, books, and footage Richards shoots himself. His videos often examine the visceral surfaces of vernacular imagery. His works draw influence from the fractured contemporary milieu of information exchange as well as "scratch video"- a British video art genre of the 1980s and the 1990s, characterized by radical politics, fast cuts, and found footage....