From a photograph of Gypsy children found in the Belfort archives, a story is built around the border and identity.
We walk through a town.
We meet few inhabitants.
It is cold outside.
We look at the windows of the buildings and try to remember all those lives we don’t know.
All the stories, big and small, that we unknowingly see.
The city is that border.
Starting from the exhibition site, Belfort, it is a question of reconstructing or inventing an imaginary city mixing in the same virtual space architectural elements, archival documents, faces, testimonies. Belfort is a city of borders.
The city here is not a path, but rather a border, a no man’s land, an edge that would extend, the fringe of an edge. This VRML matrix is presented as a paradoxical world made up of small fragments of space which, at first glance, correspond to a classical geometry but which, in the course of interactive movement, reveal themselves to juxtapose three perspectives: that of the image, that of the imaginary and that of cartography. These perspectives never manage to correspond to each other, thereby creating a gap in urban representation.
\u00ab\u00a0Exorcise not to chase away ghosts, but this time to make them right, if it means bringing them back alive, like returnees who would no longer be returnees, but like those other arrivals to whom a memory or a hospitable promise must give a welcome. \u00bb
Jacques Derrida in Spectres de Marx<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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A partir d’une photographie repr\u00e9sentant des enfants Tziganes retrouv\u00e9e dans les archives de Belfort, un r\u00e9cit se construit autour de la fronti\u00e8re et de l’identit\u00e9.
Nous marchons dans une ville.
Nous croisons peu d’habitants.
Il fait froid dehors.
Nous regardons les fen\u00eatres des immeubles et nous essayons de nous souvenir de toutes ces vies que nous ne connaissons pas.
Toutes ces histoires, grandes et petites, que nous cotoyons sans le savoir.
La ville est cette fronti\u00e8re.
Partant du lieu de l’exposition, Belfort, il s’agit de reconstituer ou d’inventer une ville imaginaire m\u00ealant dans un m\u00eame espace virtuel des \u00e9l\u00e9ments architecturaux, des documents d’archives, des visages, des t\u00e9moignages. Belfort est une ville de fronti\u00e8res.
La ville n’est pas ici un chemin, plut\u00f4t une lisi\u00e8re, un no man’s land, un bord qui se prolongerait, la frange d’un bord. Cette matrice en VRML se pr\u00e9sente comme un monde paradoxal constitu\u00e9 de petits fragments d’espaces qui, au premier regard, correspondrent \u00e0 une g\u00e9om\u00e9trie classique mais qui au cours du d\u00e9placement interactif se r\u00e9v\u00e9lent juxtaposer trois perspectives : celle de l’image, celle de l’imaginaire et celle de la cartographie. Ces perspectives ne parviennent jamais \u00e0 se correspondre, instaurant par l\u00e0 m\u00eame un d\u00e9calage dans la repr\u00e9sentation urbaine.
\u00ab\u00a0Exorciser non pas pour chasser les fant\u00f4mes, mais cette fois pour leur faire droit, si cela revient \u00e0 les faire revenir vivants, comme des revenants qui ne seraient plus des revenants, mais comme ces autres arrivants auxquels une m\u00e9moire ou une promesse hospitali\u00e8re doit donner accueil.\u00a0\u00bb
Jacques Derrida in Spectres de Marx<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Curator : Anne Roquigny
Exposition : Nuits Savoureuses, Belfort
Production : Centre International de Cr\u00e9ation Vid\u00e9o<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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