Quelques gouttes d'éternité - Installation de Beat Gysin & Anna Katharina Scheidegger

Quelques gouttes d'éternité

image de l'oeuvre Quelques gouttes d'éternité de Beat Gysin & Anna Katharina Scheidegger

De Beat Gysin & Anna Katharina Scheidegger, installation 2020

Photographs of the deceased are immersed in tanks full of water. The images dissolve, going through a succession of states showing ephemeral, fragile beauty.

The tanks are backlit and the light is projected onto the walls and ceiling.

Drops fall into the tanks, making low noises that sound like voices and mingle with the words of the deceased. The voices of the drops, together forming a murmur, is accompanied by a subtle and tender musical composition. The result is an ensemble which orchestrates images and sound in an installation. The atmosphere that is established in the room raises questions. After the dissolution of bodies, does something like the soul still remain, a moment of oating and pulsation?

Is it possible that an intermediary world, a world of transition may exist?

This project is not about mourning, but about memory.

A preliminary version of the work is being exhibited in Panorama 22 – Les Sentinelles; Écho de quelques gouttes d'éternité.

Remerciements Thanks

À toute l’équipe du Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains, spécialement Éric Prigent et Pascale Pronnier ; à Louise Déry, Christophe Boulanger, Mariam Koné ; au CIPGP, Collège International de Photographie du Grand Paris ; à Radwina Seiler, Sagaprojects.

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  • Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing

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