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Marion Tampon-Lajarriette

09.26.08 - 10.19.08
Movie — Fondation d'entreprise espace écureuil pour l'art contemporain

Marion Tampon Lajariette, Manderley, 2007

© Marion Tampon Lajariette, courtesy: Galerie Skopia, Genève

Marion Tampon-Larjerriette also presents films at the Sollertis gallery.

Born in 1982 in Paris, she lives in Geneva and Paris.

 

This very young artist, who graduated from the Villa Arson in 2005, extends the way contemporary art has managed to fit into cinema, to extract psychic states, in particular, therefrom. Working with photograms and film sequences borrowed from Hitchcock, Godard, Bertolucci and Philippe Garel, the remake for her goes hand in hand with the recent developments of the new media and an interactive praxis of the image, challenging the place of the viewer.

 

What films are being shown at the Fondation Espace Ecureuil?

In Manderley , the audience moves once again, in a virtual way, through the maze of corridors and rooms, and around the environs of the country house in Hitchcock's film Rebecca , put back together with the help of a few hundred photograms of the film assembled like a virtual, floating house of cards. In La Passerelle/The Footbridge, two films refer to each other through the periods separating them. A bridge is created between these two film worlds, putting their female characters face to face. In the vertical projection called Stream , a flow of pixels—with an at once continual and irregular motion—presents at times contradictory movements which case different currents to collide. This video has been processed through a whole sequence of compressions and other types of formatting. From its recording to its downloading, by way of the ins and outs of the Internet. The final object: this accumulation of pixel-particles is the outcome of all this “digital life”.

 

What films are being screened at the Marvejol/Sollertis gallery?

With Camera 1, shot 8 we proceed above the moving surface of a synthetic ocean. The shift reproduced on this expanse is that of the camera's visual field in a scene from another Hitchcock movie, The Rope. La visionneuse is an interactive object, halfway between the shooting device and the device for reading the film. Without the viewer's action, it's a simple photographic view that we are shown.
By moving the joystick, the spectator thus activates a view filmed by aiming a tracking shot in such and such a direction while adjusting the degree of clarity of the landscape. The formerly passive spectator of the film finds him/herself in the position of beholder, player, and cameraman.