Naomi
Jérémie Danon
Galerie Eric Mouchet, Paris
- Title
- Naomi
- Gallery
- Galerie Eric Mouchet, Paris
- Year
- 2024
- Duration
- 17 min 40 s
- Format & Technical
LED Screen TV
- Jérémie Danon, stills from Naomi, 2024
| Naomi is her middle name, and the one given to women who convert to Judaism. As a young student, she was raised in an atheist family by a Senegalese mother and a French father, who later converted to Islam out of love. Naomi doesn’t believe in God, and doesn’t think this should stop her from doing what she’s doing today, although she feels alone in her endeavors.The story alternates between moments of worship and more intimate discussions in the studio, in which real-life elements linked to the practice of the Jewish religion are reproduced. “To be Jewish is to know how to tell stories, and I think that sharing this story helps me to articulate mine better, that making this film with you can only strengthen me in my journey to become a better Jew.” |
Stills
Jérémie Danon
1994, Paris
| “The individual, their identity and their place in society are at the core of Jérémie Danon’s work. Using photography, video and painting, the artist chronicles time spent and moments shared with singular individuals. Together they wonder how to state themselves to the world. By summing up his observations and questions, his projects present very directly the words and stories he mediates. The resulting forms are not simply documentation, but the transposition, even sublimation, of a shared experience.” Mathilda Portoghese
Born in 1994, he studied at the Beaux-arts de Paris and Le Fresnoy Studio national. His work has been recently shown at the Biennale de Lyon, the MAM (Paris), Galerie du jour Agnès B., Centre culturel Jean Cocteau, Fondation Ricard, Centquatre, BBB Centre d’art. His work is part of the collections of the Musée d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and the Fondazione In Between Art Film. |
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Galerie Eric Mouchet
- 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).