Bagnolet Chamanique 4K
Pierre Gaignard
Galerie Eric Mouchet, Paris
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- Title
- Bagnolet Chamanique 4K
- Gallery
- Galerie Eric Mouchet, Paris
- Year
- 2019
- Duration
- 15 min
- Format & Technical
Video 4K, single channel, sound.
Ed. 3 + 2 AP- Contact
Léo Marin
leomarin@ericmouchet.com
Bagnolet Chamanique 4K is a posthumous tribute, where ritualized dance until exhaustion heals wounds, regenerates and reconnects with what surrounds us: time passing, friendship, our bodies, the memories and spirits of those who have left and of “those who remain” 1. This moment of ritual, a half-savage half-warrior ceremonial, has been developed in different shapes to serve as a cement for a community.
Simultaneously a performance, a video and a sculpture, Bagnolet Chamanique 4K was produced during an opera by the Wonder/Liebert in 2017, when the Wonder collective was based in Bagnolet. In this industrial and raw setting, the dancers or warriors, costumed and carrying fireworks, move slowly, like the animist smugglers to a more spiritual world. The film is in slow motion and the sound of the fireworks becomes a haunting whale song. The gloomy melancholy surrounding this work is soon broken by the glare of the fires and the apparent fury for life of these urban dancers, contemporary shamans, neighbors of the Parisian ring road.
Pierre Gaignard is co-founder of the Wonder collective which temporarily occupies and transforms vacant places into artists’ studios on the outskirts of Paris.
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Pierre Gaignard is an artist, sculptor and film-maker, co-founder of Wonder (artist-run-space) and researcher in the laboratory “Effondrement des Alpes”, ESAAA Annecy. For ten years, he has been producing a documentary work composed of sculptures, performances and experimental films, both documentary and fictional. This body of work is driven by a strong intention: to witnessing time at work and bringing to light the survivals that operate there. To this end, he is conducting parallel artistic and academic research in DSRA. He questions the relationship between man and his memory and environment and, inevitably, with forgetting. The different forms that make up these narratives have a functionality that is sometimes pragmatic, sometimes political. They are inspired by the context in which they are set, but also by a more universal idea about our society.
Last update 22nd October 2021
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- Address
- 45, rue Jacob, 75006, Paris, France
- Phone
- +33 01 42 96 26 11
- Website
- www.ericmouchet.com
Galerie Eric Mouchet mainly represents young contemporary artists with a forward-looking approach, whose research subjects are geopolitics, sociology, ecology, society and gender issues, without limitation of media or form. The gallery also benefits from an expertise in the historical French and German avant-gardes, which offers possibility of confrontations and interconnections between the art of the 20th century and the living art of today. In 2022, the gallery has opened a new venue in Brussels, in partnership with Galerie Martin Kudlek (Cologne) and Patrick Heide Contemporary Art (London).