17 January 15 March
2003
Opening Thursday 16
January from 6 to 9pm
de Wavrin experiments Paris Ludovic de Wavrin gallery project
space
In response to Martin ParrÕs ÔPhone ProjectÕ photographic series
shown in the main gallery, No‘lle Pujol presents ÔMarwebÕ, an installation of
three monitors, a video projection and photographs in the project space.
Started in Marocco in 2001, Marweb takes its title from a web
search engine dedicated to the Maghreb. The work makes visible contradictions
that are specific to economic exchanges in the contemporary world. At different
levels, each work in the exhibition compares the persistency of a local
tradition marked with human hands to the signs of a global economy ruled by
mass technology.
On one of the three monitors, camels feed themselves in mangers
made of recycled Shell and Fina barrels. They are symbols of nomadism yet
attached to a territory. The two other videos capture parallel activities,
which apparently escape direct economic management of space but nevertheless
part of networks: on one of them, teenagers have turned electricity poles into
a playing zone ; in the other video, a man is making enigmatic body movements
on the background of a mosque and electrical wires.
On the video projection, human presence is reduced to a stump
guided by a computer mouse in a local Internet cafŽ. Behind the window,
labelled with the ÔWindowsÕ sign, the local community continues its usual
activities.
The two photographs shown in the exhibition belong to a series of
six digital images made from rushes that the artist decide to keep apart from
her editing. Shown together and in similar tones, the two images seem to come
from the same environment. They actually draw a crossed relationship between
industrial landscape and human body. Whereas one of them is a large view of the
desert punctuated with water tanks, the other one is a close-up of a body shape
behind a dune.
The ÔMarwebÕ project is being shown for the first time in Paris.
Resulting from a long editing process that ended in December 2002,
it was conceived in Marocco in March 2001 in the context of a workshop
organised by Le Pavillon programme of the Palais de Tokyo. Starting from the
framework of this collective trip, No‘lle Pujol rejected the position of the
tourist-artist in search of exotic images. She observed and juxtaposed details
and gestures revealing the links between human body and networks, cultural
identities and exotic clichŽs, mobility and economic borders.
The editing process of ÔMarwebÕ can define No‘lle PujolÕs wider
work, from her video interviews with a baby-foot competitor (Baby-F, 1999) to
the views of caravans and rubbish around Apple City in Cork (Apple Factory,
2001). Reducing her tools to static shots and short sequences and flirting with
the documentary genre , No‘lle Pujol proposes indications of a story in which
the most readable symbols of economic activities verge on an open
representation of the body and its identities.
No‘lle Pujol was born in 1972 in Saint-Girons (France) and is
based in ˆ Paris. Currently researcher at Le Fresnoy school in Tourcoing
(France), she had her degree from the Ecole nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris
in 2000. No‘lle PujolÕs work was shown in group shows Propos Mobiles (1998) in
Paris, ZAC99 (1999) at the ARC-MusŽe dÕart moderne de la ville in Paris and
Touching from a distance-Germinations 13 (2002) at the Crawford gallery in
Cork, Ireland. She often did collaborative work with the artist Ludovic Burel,
for the exhibitions Under_deconstruction (2002) at the Frac Paca in Marseille
and Le travail cÕest la santŽ (2000) at the Zoo galerie in Nantes. Her videos
were also shown in festivals such as La Saison vidŽo in Roubaix (2001), K
dÕŽcoles- Point, ligne, plan at the FŽmis cinema school (2000) and
Accs(s)-Festival des cultures Žlectroniques in Pau (2000).
Thank you : Bernard Barre, Ludovic Burel, Nicolas Chardon, Natacha
Kantor.
The Ludovic de Wavrin Gallery opened on 8th November 2002 with
Maki Kawakita and Philippe Terrier-Hermann. Throughout the year, it presents a
two-fold programme of exhibitions. In the main display room, exhibitions of
contemporary photography by several international artists. In the project room
de Wavrin experiments, a guest curator propose a series of exhibitions of young
artists working in France, which are linked to the galleryÕs main exhibition.
Guest curator for 2002-2003 : Marianne Lanavre.
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