Rotterdrame
Emilien Leroy
SKOPIA / P.-H. Jaccaud, Geneva
- Title
- Rotterdrame
- Gallery
- SKOPIA / P.-H. Jaccaud, Geneva
- Year
- 2021
- Duration
- 12 min
- Format & Technical
video
- Photo credits
«Immobile on the horizon and resembling innocent miniatures in the distance, giant tankers sailed towards the cruel hemispheres, carrying in their weighed-down flanks the vital substance of perfect genocides.»
Albert Cossery – Une ambition dans le désert – 1984
Stills
Born in 1976, Emilien Leroy lives and works in Dunkirk. Originally a musician, he trained as a classical violinist. Later, after a break, he turned to the punk scene. Today, well known in the world of alternative music, he plays a variety of instruments, composing and collaborating on contemporary operas. At the same time, he’s literally fascinated by industrial ports and the boats that go with them! I Centered on these obsessions, over the past few years he has developed a substantial video body of work.
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SKOPIA / P.-H. Jaccaud
- Address
- Rue des Vieux-Grenadiers 9, CH-1205, Geneva
- Phone
- +41 (0)22 321 61 61
- info@skopia.ch
- Website
- skopia.ch
Skopia Gallery was founded in Nyon in February 1989 by Pierre-Henri Jaccaud. From the start, it has worked with a new generation of Swiss artists, distinguishing itself through its rigorous selection of works and a large number of premières. It has exhibited at Art Basel since 1993.
In 1994, Skopia Gallery relocated to the SIP area in Geneva, a former industrial wasteland now home to the Centre for Contemporary Art and the MAMCO (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art). Since its first programme, the Gallery has sought to develop contacts with internationally renowned artists, both Swiss and foreign alike.