On the Beach
Goran Škofić
Galerie Dix9 Hélène Lacharmoise, Paris
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- Title
- On the Beach
- Gallery
- Galerie Dix9 Hélène Lacharmoise, Paris
- Year
- 2016
- Duration
- 24 min
A single frame. A sea, a sky, and a beach. And many people who are headed somewhere. Some are looking for something, some are waiting for something. Some are quiet, some are talking. Some are by themselves, some are in the company of others, and some aren’t here. Some can hear something, others pretend they do. Some aren’t certain whether they’ve seen all of this before, others think that things used to be different. Some are looking for something better, while others are staying in the gallery and watching them leave.
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Goran Škofić
- Artist
1979
Goran Škofić graduated at the Arts Academy in Split (Croatia) in 2005. The awards he has received include Oktavijan Award at the Days of Croatian Film in 2001, Radoslav Putar Award for best young artist in 2009, the Grand Prix at the 51st Zagreb Salon (Croatia) in 2016, among others.
Škofić explores the position of the individual in a variety of social spheres of contemporary life. His works consist of photo and video collage, spatial installations, recorded performance, film and sound elements. His work is based on extracting various sequences from real life and by placing them into a new context through image manipulation, he offers a surreal situation as a legitimate one. By using technological possibilities and post-production of the image, he explores the relationship between original and its representation. Social control, manipulation, lack of authority, social aspects and absurdities of everyday life are constant topics of his work, often interpreted through a humorous form.
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Galerie Dix9 Hélène Lacharmoise
- Address
- 19 rue des Filles du calvaire, 75003, Paris, France
- Phone
- +33(0)142789177
- Website
- www.galeriedix9.com
Located in Le Marias in Paris, the gallery was founded by Hélène Lacharmoise, who initially studied political sciences and specialized in contemporary art and cinema at Ecole du Louvre and Sorbonne in Paris.
Pursuing a personal line, the gallery puts the emphasis on the artist’s vision and its relation to the medium used. It is particularly interested in artists who work across disciplines.
It aims to introduce emerging artists to local and international audiences. It has often held their first solo show. It may occasionally promote some mid career artists not represented in France. Their ideas start from the « real », whether treated realistically or not. Their work concentrates on passages and mutations. It’s a matter of duration and time, whether intimate, social or political. And it’s a matter of image and identity, the conditions of its manifestation and perception.