Mourning and the arts, Margalit Berriet
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FOR WOMENS' RIGHTS MONTH
SATURDAY MARCH 11TH
from 6:30PM to 7:30 PM
PUBLIC READING
excerpts from
Les Guetteurs I, by Pascal Nordmann
(French reading by performer Elaura Thomasson)
and
Mater Baltica, by Elena Tognoli
(bilingual reading (Italian and French
by Elena Tognoli and Chloé Devis)
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"It's not about showing the unspeakable or making a documentary. Do not expect to find images of the unspeakable. The aim is to mourn, to meditate, even to pray, everything that, in a work of memory, accompanies the memory to make it bearable or at least to make it seem as if it could be bearable." - Pascal Nordmann
Pascal Nordmann has lived between Geneva, Paris and Detmold, in northern Germany, where, in 1986, he founded a theater company, the "Chairos Theater", which he directed for ten years and for which he wrote texts, directed and created sets and props. The company toured in Germany, Poland, Switzerland, France, Austria and Holland...
Born in Paris, but of Swiss nationality, he now lives in Geneva. His work embraces expressions in literature, dramatic writing, plastic arts and even computer science, whilst always staying true to the creative spirit which draws upon surrealism, humor, poetry and the strange...
His latest work, Trilogy of Glory, a three-part creation dedicated to the 20th century genocide of the Jewish people, makes use of literature, graphic art and animation.
From February 25th to March 25th, Mémoire de l'Avenir will host A Century of Glory, a monographic exhibition by the Swiss artist Pascal Nordmann. The first installment of his Trilogy of Glory, this show extends the reflections and commitments that have been dear to Mémoire de l'Avenir since its creation, by offering a visual narrative that invites us to explore the great questions that touch on collective memory, mourning, revolt, and the bridges between the political and the intimate, between the collective and the individual.
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In a celebration of colors, sounds and movements through a series of 156 images paying tribute to Max Ernst, Pablo Picasso or Paul Klee. Pascal Nordmann stages the memory of disaster in order to offer it - in a gesture of defiance - to the proponents of the eternal return, of national glories and old depraved moons.
To speak about the disaster, the greatest catastrophe: gather poor instruments.
These landscapes, these images, are those of Europe of times gone by. A century. Almost nothing. Reuse of postcards, advertising inserts. Photographs of mechanical devices belonging to history. It is the author's voice that leads us through this device. The animation: it's almost nothing. No great digital effects. Only what the small basic toolbox of the computer enthusiast allows to do. Nothing more. The collages, animated by the author's whispers, calculations of a childish simplicity. Characters coming from masters of the 20th century or older. Miro, Max Ernst, Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Jerome Bosch ... The music is born from the mixture of voices. Use of noises. Raindrops. Falling coins. It can also come from the small electronic ritornello box which imitates so well the musical instruments, the small box which one makes sing by poising notes on a range according to a childish arithmetic. But does one know the music?
PRESENTING THE EXHIBITION
SOLO SHOW
FEBRUARY 25TH -------- MARCH 24TH
OPENING FRIDAY FEBRUARY 24TH
A CENTURY OF GLORY
PUBLIC EVENTS
(FREE ENTRY)
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 24TH
OPENING 7PM-9PM
FILM PROJECTION 8PM
Un siècle de gloire (18min)
SATURDAY MARCH 11TH
PUBLIC READING 6:30PM
Pascal Nordmann, Les Guetteurs I
(read by Elaura Thomasson)
Elena Tognoli, Mater Baltica
(bilingual reading by Elena Tognoli
and Chloé Devis)
OPENING NIGHT
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 24TH at 8PM
FILM PROJECTION - MEET
Un siècle de gloire (animation, 18min)
by Pascal Nordmann
For the opening of the exhibition UN SIECLE DE GLOIRE (CENTURY OF GLORY), Mémoire de l'Avenir will host a projection of the homonymous animation film by Pascal Nordmann which completes the show. In the artist's presence.
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