Voyage au Bout de la Nuit
Radouan Zeghidour
Yamamoto Keiko Rocheix, London
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- Title
- Voyage au Bout de la Nuit
- Gallery
- Yamamoto Keiko Rocheix, London
- Year
- 2019
- Duration
- 14 min 14 s
- Format & Technical
Single channel video
A man with balaclava mask sits at a long table in a mysterious, candlelit derelict space incessantly and obsessively draws and writes a phrase ‘du bout’ or ’the end' endlessly.
When the time comes, he goes out in the deserted nocturnal Paris, walks like a haunting spectre under the Notre Dame, by the Seine River, along the trails of the Metro. And with an industrial-sized high-pressure spray tank and long spray gun, the masked man writes on the station walls and advertising displays, over and over again, ‘du bout du bout du bout’ – the end, the end, the end. He scars the city in tall, spray-painted letters ‘du bout du bout du bout’. The journey to the end of the night takes the audience through the empty Parisian cityscape as we follow the man, arriving at an underground sewage way and finally at a bright, almost whiteout gate at the end of the waterway.
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Radouan Zeghidour is an emerging artist whose practice centres around the ideas of clandestine, mystery, melancholy, legend, ruin, memory and ephemerality, always having visceral connection with his native Paris. He graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2016 and gradually his unique style has started to be known and compensated, as he was selected to take part in the Jeune Creation in 2018 and the Salon de Montrouge in 2019, both considered to be important passage for emerging artists active in France. His solo shows include ‘LXXV Chants de Sirènes’ 2019 and ‘Jian’ 2017 both at Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix, ‘Evasion’ Kunstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg, 2018 and ‘Hypogea’ at Catinca Tabacaru, New York, 2016.
Last update: October 14th, 2019.
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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.