Claudio Zulian. ‘Power No Power’
Friday 3 June 2016, 6 pm
— Screening and talk with the artist
- Artists
- Claudio Zulian
- Curators
- Diana Padrón
- Venue
- Hotel Catalonia Ramblas
- A project by
- Galerie National du Jeu de Paume
- Contributor
- Collège Victor Hugo - Aulnay-sous-Bois, Foundation d’Entreprise Hermès, Association Cinémas 93.
- Price
- Free admission
- Language
- English
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Italian-born, Barcelona-based artist Claudio Zulian works on representations of power, with teenagers from underprivileged neighbourhoods. Produced with the support of Paris’s flagship photography gallery and the Jeu de Paume, his film "Power No Power" is the result of a year-long collaboration with pupils aged 11 to 14, at Aulnay-sur-Bois (Paris).
‘What power would you most like to have? How would you use it at school? At home? In your town? In the world? For yourself? For your friends?’ These were the question posed by Claudio Zulian to school pupils at Aulnay-sous-Bois (north of Paris), as the starting-point of his film.
Power No Power explores the representations of power, according to young people. Their personal experiences and relationships, as well as their vision of the world, provide the source for the investigation. The young actors were closely involved in the workshop scenario established by the artist to define the film’s setting, the stories and protagonists, and, thus, invited to discover the mysteries of a professional film shoot through a collaborative approach, which led Zulian to question his own practice.
*The film will premiere in Barcelona on June 3 at 6 pm, and the projection will be followed by a talk with the artist and the curator Diana Padrón.
Artists: Claudio Zulian
Diana Padrón is a researcher, critic and independent curator. She holds a B.A. degree in Art History from the University of La Laguna, M.A. in Advanced Studies in Art History from the University of Barcelona and a Ph.D. from the same university in Society and Culture: History, Anthropology, Arts, Heritage and Cultural Management. She has been a visiting post-doc researcher at the Università di Padova, Université de Lille and Goldsmiths College – University of London. She collaborates with several art, thought and politics journals, and has been co-editor with Martí Peran of the journal REG|AC (Scientific Journal of Global Studies and Contemporary Art of the Universitat de Barcelona). As an independent curator she has organised exhibitions for the San Martín Centro de Cultura Contemporánea, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Fundació Mies van der Rohe, Museo Picasso de Barcelona, Loop Barcelona Festival, 13th Havana Biennial, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporànea, Centro de Arte La Regenta and Casal Solleric. She is a member of the Instituto de Arte Contemporáneo (IAC) and the Associació Catalana de la Crítica d’Art (ACCA).
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