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Mircea Cantor

Video installation — TLT

Born in 1977 in Oradea (Romania), he lives in Nantes (France).

 

After leaving Romania, Mircea Cantor hitched his way around Europe before settling in France in 1999. His film Double Head Matcheswhich describes the production of double-head matches in a Romanian factory, was shown at the 2003 Venice Biennale. The film is just one of the aspects of this project which also includes flyers and matchboxes to be handed out to passers-by. Cantor takes a “relational” approach to art and regards himself as a politically committed artist. Guided by a keen observation of social relationships as they are incarnated, in particular, in the physiognomy of cities, he acts on the sidelines, in the mode of appropriation or subverting. Through his films and his videos, as well as his photographs, his objects and a plentiful body of graphic and published work, the artist makes constant changes of viewpoint, which highlight a multifaceted and mobile reality. His approach, which is as poetic as it is political, fits in with a form of nomadism where, in his own words, everything he does “concerns mental, virtual and psychic shifts, near and far”.

 

For le Printemps de septembre programme, Cantor will be producing a work which will be broadcast on TLT - Toulouse Télévision.

Co-produced by the Jeu de Paume, Paris and le Printemps de septembre.