video
stills from Le Requin du Roi, 2004
Le Requin du roi (The King's Shark) is a new project by Imanol Atorrasagasti and Yan Duyvendak that will be presented for the first time at attitudes. This polymorphous piece is based on a Polynesian rite-of-passage legend. The two artists have explored and broken down the story over a long period of time, extracting the essence of the narrative, and from this, proposing two very different interpretations. These two approaches to the same subject, whose origin dates back to the beginning of time, have taken the form of video pieces, which will be projected in large scale on screens hanging in the darkened exhibition space. The two films were constructed around the same sequential articulation (the ultimate desire, the leap from the cliff, the demon to kill…), but the tone adopted, the references and the form are particular to each individual artist. Little by little, the different approaches take over from the narrative at the origin of the project, and their singular interpretations of the subject finish by taking on their own existence.
video
stills from Le Requin du Roi, 2004
More
than six years after Rêve no. 36 - a multimedia installation
that we presented in our former location - Imanol Atorrasagasti
and Yan Duyvendak continue to analyse the functioning of our senses,
our memory, our dreams and our instincts. Remaining at a distance
from mass media communication, they prefer to use the ancient tradition
of legends. Once familiar with the folklore, they appropriate and
reproduce it through contemporary technological tools and the creation
of original collages, abundant with references and wild jubilation.
These pieces will be shown in the small exhibition room as a counterpoint
to the video installation.
Le
Requin du Roi, collages
The exhibition of Imanol Atorrasagasti & Yan Duyvendak and the realisation of the work Le Requin du Roi are supported by the Departement of Public Instruction of County of Geneva, the Contemporary Art Fund of the City of Geneva, as well as the Swiss Lottery. Le Requin du Roi is co-produced by the Center for Contemporary Images (Saint-Gervais Genève). Le
Requin du Roi Imanol Atorrasagasti is an actor, Yan Duyvendak is an artist. They work separately, and together since 1997. exhibitions
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