Tara Vatanpour (performance “quieres jugar? Jogo game basi” au Doc!),
Interprète: Tina Xi,
Photographe: Sofiane Boukhari
The City #1
The 2060s, memories from a forgotten future
Asaf Gam HaCohen
Artist, director and set design : Tara Vatanpour
Actors :
JULIE ANQUEZ as The Swan
LISON CAPDEVIELLE ETCHEVERRIA as The Dog
ONIX N VANGA as The Hangman
MARGOT ROBILLARD/BALTHAZAR PLESSE-COSTA as Fluidity is Solid
CLARA LEVEQUE as The Static Vase
NINA LARA as Powerless
MATHILDE HEERMAN as back-up
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Tara Vatanpour is a multicultural artist of Persian-Azerbaïdjani descent. Her work centers on the themes of the power of spirituality in nature versus man made power and submission in human relations dynamics. With installation work, drawing, performance art and painting, she had exhibited in Italy, London, Paris, and Israel. After a childhood between different continents, languages and cultures, the theme of identity and a navigation between people and cultures allows her to understand interactions between countries on different levels, like political aspects or economical ones and their ties to the artworld.
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Asaf Gam Hacohen, Israeli artist, and lecture, lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel. He holds a Certified Graduate Ux design from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, a MA in Cultural Studies from the Tel - Aviv University, a Bfa Cinema Studies from Sapir College and a Practical Engineer Degree in Photography and Digital Media from Hanegev College.
Mémoire de l’Avenir will host from April 1 to April 28th, FUTURE PERFECT, the first exhibition in France by Israeli artist Asaf Gam HaCohen.
Summarizing more than a decade of creation, the exhibition gathers works from different series, produced throughout the artists career. The works are the result of an ongoing exploration in the field of photography, using its tradition, history and contemporary developments as tools to research notions of memory and identity.
By re-wroking and hybridizing photographic materials ranging from personal archives to found visual material , Asaf Gam HaCohen’s work striked the viewer, pressing them to engage with questions of story telling, veracity and representation, through exploring the layers that grant an image its opacity or legibility.
His transformations of visual matter offer re-interpretations of the mundane endowed with a discourse that ranges across from the most intimate to the political sphere. One example being the series «The 2060s» where to artist appeals to the ever-present AI aesthetic, while purposefully circumventing its tools and remaining true to all-manual techniques.
In constant dialogue with his medium, Asaf Gam HaCohen brings to light questions on the passing of time, technological obsolescence and the fragility of memory in light of our societies rapid transformations. His eye on the effects contemporary urbanism and technology have on human perception remind us of Paul Virilio’s thinking : «Blindness is thus very much at the heart of the coming ‘vision machine’. The production of sightless vision is itself merely the reproduction of an intense blindness that will become the latest and last form of industrialisation: the industrialisation of the non-gaze.» (The Vision Machine, Indiana Universtiy Press, p. 72)
Probing what might be man’s future memory - his ability to remember that which is yet to come - like an archaeological dig in reverse, FUTURE PERFECT is an investigation into the notions of memory and identity where the viewer is invited to stand on the threshold between the past, the present and the future.
PRESENTING THE EXHIBITION
SOLO SHOW
APRIL 1ST -------- APRIL 28TH
OPENING FRIDAY MARCH 31TH
FUTURE PERFECT
ASAF GAM HACOHEN
ASAF GAM HACOHEN
SAVE THE DATE
MARCH 31th
OPENING 7PM-9PM
LIVE PERFORMANCE 8PM
Tara Vatanpour
The Necklace
performed by 5 actors
FRIDAY MARCH 31TH at 8PM
THE NECKLACE de Tara Vatanpour
"A necklace has been lost. Everyone has a different story about the necklace: what it is, what it entails, its history, and why it was so important. Each actor is speaking in a different language, at a different volume…
The performance examines that which is lost in translation or through time, the failings of oral transmission and the trauma of incommunicability. Tara Vananpour's piece gives life to figures forming a living archive ; exploring at once tthe multiple layers of information they contain, expose and conceal."
duration : 20 minutes approx.
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