The Lost Dog
Amie Barouh
Yamamoto Keiko Rocheix, London
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- Title
- The Lost Dog
- Gallery
- Yamamoto Keiko Rocheix, London
- Year
- 2020
- Duration
- 11 min 38 s
- Format & Technical
HD, Single-Channel Video, Colour, Sound
A lost dog roams around in a working-class neighbourhood of Paris and being taken care of by a myriad of persons on the street, each one cajoling the tail-waggling puppy in his/her own way.
The dog may be a euphemism for all the marginalised in the society, being ‘toyed’ around, humiliated, or disregarded- being at the mercy of the others despite passing enjoyable moments. Nonetheless, and importantly, the video is imbued with affection and hope, possibly linked to a liberty of vagabondism, youthful audacity and unspoken but subliminal faith for a better future.
Shot from the perspective of the protagonists, the short film is endowed with the sense of authenticity, sometimes leading to building up tension that marks lives of immigrants and minority communities: It is an unapologetic affirmation of those whose lives are more often not, mere footnotes to the mainstream society.
Stills
Amie Barouh creates an experimental documentary giving voice to those at the margin of society. ‘Film diary’ provides the foundation for her work as does the idea that all knowledge is subjective. Driven more by affinity than dogma to ‘make a film’, the video of Barouh, between documentaries and visual essays, aims first to transmit an experience, lived as it is.
The search of right proximity with those who she films gives constant tension to Barouh’s work. The camera, the third eye and arm of the artist, negotiates the nature of the relations in real-time that she, as a documentary artist but as a person before anything else, maintains with her subjects.
Presentation and subjective editing espouse her heartbeat where impressionistic or realistic images originate, reconstructing the full complexity of documenting the world to which we do not belong.
Written by Julie Akermann (shortened by the gallery)
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Yamamoto Keiko Rocheix
- Address
- 19 Goulston Street, E1 7, London, United Kingdom
- Phone
- +442072471167
- keiko@yamamotokeiko.com
- Website
- www.yamamotokeiko.com
Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix exhibits artworks from the West and the East, mainly of emerging and midcareer artists whose artistic researches center around light, space, and ambiguity of reality, time and that of identity.
The Gallery embraces a wide range of media and materials as vehicles of expressions for these themes, including new media such as electronics, video or sound installations and performances while maintaining the strong links with the traditional art forms of drawing, painting, photographs and sculpture.
It aims to explore broad perspectives hosting the exhibitions curated by independent curators in addition to presenting the Gallery’s own curating. It exhibits works of artists working in the UK, Europe and elsewhere, and a special focus will be placed on introducing artists from Japan and other Asian countries less known to the London art scene.