In a breezy spring night, the audience is guided by torchlight to a forest situated in Basel, Switzerland. A story with a leading cast of foxes, hedgehogs, owls… and the audience themselves. The audience ‘participates’ in the film by their mere presence. ‘The Screening’ is a ‘mise en abyme’, aims to shake and realign one’s perception of reality. Exaggerate the vastness of the nature by illustrating the trivial beings of small animals, Michel is demonstrating human’s innate relationship with the nature according to an ‘involuntary understanding’ (in the words of Claude Lévi-Strauss). Nature and the animal have been a consistent theme in Michel’s work, but she refuses to force any theory on the existence of animal, nor humanise them. She aims to connect human and nature (the two elements that seem to have developed an opposite path throughout human history) again with sound and visual presentation. ‘The Screening’, debuting as an ‘Art Statements’ at the Basel Art 38, Switzerland, is now showing at agnès b.’s LIBRAIRIE GALERIE until 9th August.
Text: Carmen Lee | Translation: dilettante
Update: 3 May 2008
THE SCREENING
A VIDEO EXHIBITION BY ARIANE MICHEL
Now – 09 Aug 2008
11:30am – 8:00pm daily (closed on Sunday and public holidays)
agnès b.’s LIBRAIRIE GALERIE
1/F, 18 Wing Fung Street, Wan Chai, Hong Kong
Free Admission
