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-sound installation HAVEN is an insitu work exhibited during the Rencontres d’Arles, France in 2021 and projected on the vault of the Chapelle de la Charité. The video captures a close-up view from a ship. The title of the work refers to a place of longing; a destination of arrival and departure, where reception and refuge can be made possible. The context in this case relates to the Mediterranean region. The inversion of waves and clouds plays with our perception and operates akin to a visual recursion. HAVEN draws references from mythology and art history, forming an iconographic connection to human sacrifice. The slow-motion effect and repetitive sound enhance the meditative,sacred, and is simultaneously threatening atmosphere in 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

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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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