This film is part of Aseman Sabet’s Carte Blanche co-presented with MUTEK.
Part of a series under the same title, the video Présage invites us to carefully observe a chemically activated mineral landscape in an aquarium. By provoking calculated reactions through the encounter of multiple components, the artist generates an intriguing tableau vivant. Forms and colors, modulations and growths unfold, sometimes propelled, other times on the verge of immobility. Following a complex evolutive logic, the inorganic matter expands, becomes mobile and leads us to reconsider how we characterize the living and the non-living. Created in the mode of a direct recording performance, the soundtrack contributes to erase the border between nature and culture, between art and science.
Part of a series under the same title, the video Présage invites us to carefully observe a chemically activated mineral landscape in an aquarium. By provoking calculated reactions through the encounter of multiple components, the artist generates an intriguing tableau vivant. Forms and colors, modulations and growths unfold, sometimes propelled, other times on the verge of immobility. Following a complex evolutive logic, the inorganic matter expands, becomes mobile and leads us to reconsider how we characterize the living and the non-living. Created in the mode of a direct recording performance, the soundtrack contributes to erase the border between nature and culture, between art and science.
| Director | Hicham Berrada |
| Camera | Hicham Berrada |
| Sound | Laurent Durupt |
| Sound mixing | Laurent Durupt |
Image tirée du film Présage // Image from the film Présage
Production
Hicham Berrada
Born in 1986 in Casablanca (Morocco), Hicham Berrada lives and works in Paris and Roubaix (France). His work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions at: the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Palais de Tokyo, Paris; the Maubuisson Abbey; in the gardens of the Palace of Versailles; at the Mac Val, Vitry-sur-Seine; the macLyon; the CCCOD, Tours; the MRAC – Musée Régional d’art contemporain Languedoc Roussillon, Sérignan; the Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing; the ZKM, Karlsruhe; the Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt-am-Main; the MoMA PS1, New York; the ICAS – Institute of Contemporary Art, Singapore; the Moderna Museet, Stockholm and the Banco de la República, Bogota. He took part in several biennials: Taipei Biennial; the Yokohama Triennale; the Lyon Biennale; the BIM – Biennale of Moving Image, Geneva and the Yinchuan Biennale (China). The artist has also presented various performances at: the Villa Medici and the Maxxi in Rome; the Abattoirs, Toulouse; the Mac Val; as well as during the Nuits Blanches in Paris, Brussels and Melbourne. He was in residence at the Villa Medici in Roma, and at the Pinault Collection in Lens. In 2019, Hicham Berrada participated in the group shows at the Punta della Dogana, Museum of the Pinault Collection in Venice, Italy; the Zadkine Museum, Paris, France; and Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany. He has had solo exhibitions at: the Louvre- Lens; the Hayward Gallery, London; and the Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw (USA). Hicham Berrada was nominated for the 2020 Marcel Duchamp prize.
Biographical notes provided by the film production team
Biographical notes provided by the film production team
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