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NOTHING IS / EVERYTHING IS: "LOST" - screening
FROM DECEMBER, 11 2010 / CURIAL COURTYARD / FREE>
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NOTHING IS / EVERYTHING IS
FROM APRIL 1ST TO NOVEMBER 30 2010
Taking the city as his primary material, Nicolas Lelièvre produces images that play with the relationships maintained by time, space and the presences that move through them. During his residency at the CENTQUATRE, he continued with this work focusing on the perception and representation of urban spaces, at the frontiers of video and photography. Using visual effects that could almost be described as "anti-spectacular", it is a matter of circling round the idea of transition, both in the city and in images: transition from one space to another, from one state to another, one image to another. As an urban passageway, the actual CENTQUATRE building is the perfect metaphor for this approach. Therefore the images are presented there in such a way as to constitute an experience in itself.
BIOGRAPHY
After graduating as an architect in 2001, Nicolas Lelièvre quickly turned to practices involving the image. For him video and photography are his preferred means of questioning the relationships maintained by time and space. The Centres Horizons project carried out between 2003 and 2008 with the puppeteer Renaud Herbin in particular allowed him to explore various urban territories including Berlin (Villa Médicis Hors-les-murs, 2004), Buenos Aires, Montreal as well as Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande and Lisbon. His questioning relating to the perceptions and representations of urban spaces takes a variety of forms, moving between photography, video and live shows. In parallel he regularly participates as a video artist in the creation of shows for the theatre. In the context of an exchange with the Tokyo Wonder Site, he worked in Japan for three months while Kanako Sasaki was in residence at the CENTQUATRE.
www.nicolaslelievre.com
