Marion Guillar + Joas Nebe
April 30 - May 13, 2023
“Objects in mirror are closer than they appear” by Marion Guillar
Above stills from “Objects in mirror are closer than they appear"
Tell us about the artwork. What makes it unique?
“Hypnotic, unreal, confusing, this piece tells the abstract depth of images and the ambiguous perception implied by a point of view. I am attached to it because, like all my videos, it comes from my space-time context and is not staged. It appeared to me during a day of heavy rain, due to a leak in the hall of my studio, when I tried to chase the water with a scraper.”
Tell us about yourself. How did you come to be an artist in video/digital media?
“All my video projects, under a different form, are issued from the same intention and from the same research project. They are born from an artistic process which consists in filming short sequences of images-movement, resulting from my daily life then to select, sort, assemble or to isolate them in order to diffuse them in the form of installation. Like a force hidden under a simple but deep form, these images are raw because I seek to give them back their power, without intermediary. Sometimes, I think of deleting all my videos to give them back their freedom.”
“The Elephant in the Room” by Joas Nebe
Above stills from “The Elephant in the Room”
Tell us about the artwork. What makes it unique?
“MESSAGES, SIMPLY! Everything has a message. Architecture embodies the message, the architect wants us to understand. Fashion designers send us messages by choosing certain textile patterns, colors, the shape of the clothing. Yellow press headlines scream at us often enough useless messages. Even simple patterns of wallpapers or tiles covering our floors try to catch our attention for the messages of forms and colors. The world is full of messages, even if the messages are useless or pure nonsense. But nevertheless everything on the surface of the earth has something to say. And we have to decide which part of all the overload of information is worth to be deciphered.”
The following is an excerpt from Gaming into Mindfulness, an interview with the artist by Rebecca Schoensee.
“It’s a never-ending game of disintegration. I challenge the viewer by not living up to his or her expectations. I am denying the satisfaction of solving the riddle, hidden within the depth of my artwork.” By turning his filmic cabinet of curiosity into an intriguing jigsaw puzzle of hybrid geometric patterns, Joas Nebe teases the viewer into accessing his game. He believes: “Riddle games of this kind spark creativity and pass on the role of the artist to the viewer.”