peter campus: video ergo sum
By Camille Bardin
Your image is immediately projected and then the reflection of it appears and starts following you. This three-second gap makes you aware that time is passing. The installation «Anamnesis» (1973) problematizes the construction of our identity, putting forward a present and former self through with two distinct but dependent projections.
Each closed-circuit video installation of Peter Campus is therefore a new existential and perceptual experience for the visitor. By multiplying temporalities and bodily representations in space, he deconstructs our image.
Ana-chronically, his work is an abyss of our hyper-connected period. Unlike the 1970’s, we are confronted on a daily basis with our image and we have the means to control it but it’s impossible here to do the same. The video ergo sum exhibition is a reflection on the impossibility of being simultaneously the subject, and the product of the subject who thinks, the object.
Exhibition:
Peter Campus, video ergo sum
Until May 28th 2017
Musée du Jeu de Paume
Words by Camille Bardin
Photo Nathan Rabin, courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery © Peter Campus 2017
Silicone armors to face the future: Amy Brener x Pact
By Camille Bardin
At pact gallery, Amy Brener’s sculptures invite us to a temporal displacement.
For this futuristic trip, the Canadian artist took with her the mere objects of everyday life. Forks, bars and fuses are carefully protected from time that goes by in resin cases. As it is impossible to alter their history, their memory will remain forever untouchable.
Armed with these amulets, she penetrates subsequent times with a very particular sensuality. Silicone espouses female forms, let us guess their chests and mystifies the female body.
For this exhibition, the gallery makes a ‘pact’ with Michaël Jasmin, Ph.D in Archaeology, Sorbonne, Paris. The archaeologist describes accurately this struggle with time and sublimates these sarcophagi which look like temporal capsules, Invisiblers.
Amy Brener’s Invisiblers show goes on at Pact Gallery in Paris until March 11th 2017.
Words: Camille Bardin
Visuals courtesy of Pact Gallery