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 audio-visual installation, HAVEN, is an in situ artwork displayed during the Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles, projected onto the cross vault of the nave of the Chapelle de la Charité. The video features a close-up shot taken from a ship. The title, HAVEN, signifies a place of yearning – Sehnsuchtsort – representing a locus of arrivals and departures where welcome and refuge ought to be attainable. The inversion, whereby waves are projected onto the ceiling in lieu of clouds, challenges our perception and serves as a ‘mise-en-abîme’. The deliberate slow movement and repetitive sound amplify the notion of a tragic fate from which one cannot escape. HAVEN draws upon references from mythology and art history while establishing an iconographic connection to human sacrifice. This work interrogates concepts of time, the absurdity of existence, as well as our inherent longing for light and life.

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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