Les Modules / Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent — Clément Cogitore — Palais de Tokyo — Exhibition — Slash Paris

Past: November 4 → 27, 2011

clément cogitore is developing a practice halfway between cinema and contemporary art. Mixing films, videos, installations and photographs, his work questions the ways in which people live with their images. in most cases, it is a question of ritual and collective memory, featuring the sacred and a certain idea of the permeable nature of worlds. The artist was part of the official selection for the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs [Directors’ Fortnight] at the 64th international Film Festival in cannes in 2011. in 2012 he will take up a one-year residency at the Villa Medicis in rome in order to write the script for his first feature-length film.

The never-before-seen video, entitled “un archipel” [an archipelago] finds its origin in a recent news item. on 22 october 2010, hMS astute, a British army nuclear submarine, mysteriously ran aground off the coast of Skye in Scotland. clément cogitore has made an “unidentified filmic object” and uses various cinematographic techniques that have been passed down through history, from silent film boxes to reworked film used in experimental cinema. This archipelago of images shows the artist’s talent for storytelling and places the spectator in a state of anxiety at the edge of fiction.