Exit
There is only one true and definite way out of this world, but countless are the stories and representations, passages or journeys, towards the other, dreamed or feared, side - multitudes of other imaginary worlds which live inside of us; places, objects and beings of our existence, of our transposed world which is inhabited by our dreams.
Gérard Cairaschi
Director
Also Directed by Gérard Cairaschi
Whereas dream is reconstructing the world, cinema waking dream is interpreting the appearance of things.
Mémoire(s), Gérard Cairaschi's new video, continues the work started in 1996 with the video installation ‘Quinaé’. Here again we find a predilection for images where nature and characters are as many references to the History of art (painting in particular) and to our common and individual story (myths, religions, literature, cinema...). An interlacing of images and a luminous vibration that both invade us and make a whole world in creation emerge - or reappear - from our retina and memory.
A young boy molds objects with clay that he then manipulates, combines and associates, in an obscure ritual. As the objects/representations he creates combine and develop a narrative, the fast alternation of images on the screen imbricate and shape images/apparitions that only the “lanterna magica” of cinema and the magic of editing allow. Magia means enchantment.
The incessant exploration of the borders of our world banishes us further and further from its centre, just as the discovery of how our physical exterior functions has shifted its centre from the heart to the brain. The video entitled (Eden) plays with visual collusions, the representations of various different cultures reminiscences of our dreams, our myths, our desires, yearnings and anxieties.
The video IRAE (anger in Latin) interwaves myths, beliefs, narratives. Images that inhabit us, populate our imagination, build us. Images fashioned by our dreams, art and our desires. The soundtrack, long lament, evokes absence, pain, desire, expectation, hope, anger.
Michel J consists of a series of portraits drawn from a video that was filmed during the religious service for the death of Michel Journiac in October 1995. It is the memory of this mass, the representation of a rite. A video work at first, it uses photography and ends up in painting, in pictorialness, through numerous references to the History of art and to ancient and modern painting.
