Chantal Crousel Gallery is pleased to announce the new exhibition of Anri Sala.
A recent super 16 mm, a new video, a series of eight photographs and works on paper will be presented. All these works have been realized in Berlin.
Saxophonist Jemeel Moondoc will be performing the night of the opening, Saturday April 22nd, from 6:00 pm on.
Long Sorrow
2005
12 minutes 57 secondes
super 16mm film transferred to hard disk
colour and sound
The film «Long Sorrow» shows the New-York jazz saxophonist Jemeel Moondoc, suspended from the facade of a building in a suburb of Berlin, named «Lange Jammer» by its inhabitants. The 1,8 kilometers long building is a sign of utopic and progressive hope of the nineteenseventies. The musician is performing a long improvisation inspired by the surrounding sounds. « Long Sorrow » is transcending limitations and bases it the interplay between inner and outer, familiar and unknown. It stimulates the extension of our imagination.
(It has been exhibited for the first time at the Hamburger Bahnhof for the « Preis der Nationalgalerie für Junge Kunst » and at the « Nicola Trussardi Foundation » in Milan, last autumn).
Window Drawing
2006
50 seconds
colour video, silent
The window, once again, is the main image of this video premiered at the occasion of this exhibition. It shows the projection of the window’s shadow on the wall of a room. The light source comes from outside. Through the shadow ‘s projection, we perceive the outside and the falling snow. The storm brutally interrupts the football game. It « stops » also the window.
Passage à côté de l’heure
2006
a series of eight colour photographs
Laserchrome mounted on Reynobond
40 x 55 cm
A same subject is shown from different points of view. Along this series, the image -at first abstract- becomes a sign of time and its passing.
CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU
A screening of Long Sorrow and Now I see, 35mm video, is programmed on Monday April 24th, at the Centre Georges Pompidou, cinéma 1, niveau 1. A new performance by Jemeel Moondoc will follow the screening.
