HAVEN

Video-Sound Installation, 10 min., 4K

Rencontres de la Photographie d'Arles | France 2021

https://www.rencontres-arles.com/fr/expositions/view/1007/daniel-reuter-lisa-kohl

https://letzarles.lu/edition-2021

https://www.konschthal.lu/en/exhibitions/letz-arles

Curated by Danielle Igniti, kindly supported by Lët'z Arles asbl, Centre national de l'Audiovisuel,
Œuvre Nationale de Secours Grande-Duchesse Charlotte and Fondation Été du Luxembourg.

Everything originates in the sea and everything returns to it : it reflects, at one and the same time, the image of life and that of death. It is through the sea that one crosses into the other world. The water draws pleasure from the divine property of giving and taking back life. It designates the current century ; some drown in it, others cross it.

Jean Chevalier, Alain Gheerbrant : Dictionnaire des symboles, mythes, rêves, coutumes, gestes, formes, figures, couleurs, nombres, 1969, Éditions Robert Laffont, S.A. et Éditions Jupiter, Paris

The video and sound installation HAVEN is a site-specific work presented in 2021 as part of the Rencontres de la Photographie d'Arles and projected onto the ribbed vault of the side nave of the Chapelle de la Charité. The installation features a close-up shot filmed from a ship. The title of the work alludes to a place of longing—a space of arrival and departure, with a reference to the Mediterranean region. The interplay between waves and clouds shapes our perception and creates a mise en abyme. HAVEN draws its references from mythology and art history, establishing an iconographic link to the theme of sacrifice—sacrifice humain. The slow-motion effect and repetitive sound intensify the meditative, sacred, and simultaneously threatening atmosphere of the space.

HAVEN  | Videosound Installation | Chapelle de la Charité | Rencontres de la Photographie d'Arles | France | 2021

kindly subsidized by Lët‘z Arles, Centre national de l'Audiovisuel, and Œuvre Nationale de Secours Grande-Duchesse Charlotte foundation (LU)

© Romain Girtgen

© Romain Girtgen

HAVEN  | Videosound Installation | Konschthal Esch | Luxembourg | 2021

kindly subsidized by Lët‘z Arles, Centre national de l'Audiovisuel and Œuvre Nationale de Secours Grande-Duchesse Charlotte foundation (LU)

© Romain Girtgen

Exhibition at Chapelle de la Charité | Rencontres de la Photographie d'Arles | France

kindly subsidized by Lët‘z Arles, Centre national de l'Audiovisuel and Œuvre Nationale de Secours Grande-Duchesse Charlotte foundation (LU)

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