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Berlin change plus vite que mon cœur
IMAGES MOUVANTES POUR UNE VISION ACTUELLE
With the artists
Francisca Benítez
John Bock
Michel de Broin
Rui Calçada Bastos
Filipa César
Christian Jankowski
Bjørn Melhus
Reynold Reynolds
Julian Rosefeldt
Meggie Schneider
Sasha Waltz
Nowhere are the changes of a city more visible than in Berlin. Transformation and
destruction animate rapidly the lives of native ghosts and the fresh strangers moving to
Berlin after the fall of the wall in 1989. Memory and renewal, disappearance and
appearance, transformation and time dissolve the borders of the past east/west divided
city. While urban reinvention changes buildings and places, the memory preserves and
keeps slower the demise of what was seen and lived.
As Charles Baudelaire recognized of the Paris of the XIX century, the first modern city, it is
possible to imagine Berlin as the dynamic forthcoming 21st century capital, with it’s
processes of change affecting our hearts:
La forme d’une ville
Change plus vite, helas!
Que le coeur d’un mortel
-C. Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
“Berlin change plus vite que mon coeur - Images mouvantes pour une vision actuelle”
exposes moving image artworks of international artists that came to Berlin in different
moments of the past 20 years. They developed an experimental work corresponding to the
Berlin spirit, bringing into images the inventive, destructive and nostalgic character from
this city in motion.
Video and film artworks become the media per excellence to enter into Berlin’s imaginary. It
is itself a media that changes frame by frame, becoming a moving panorama to
contemplate variations; like dreams or ghosts, we see the shapes of light and shadow
running in front of our eyes. Video and film artworks are like our memory, having the power
to store and keep what is gone. Through their metaphorical language, documentary and
fictive moving image artworks congregate the individual with the collective in one shot.
Like a cinema conceived as a social space, the exhibition creates a new display with floating
screens and disperses East Berlin furniture. The viewer is invited to pass though the
passage of moving image art and sit in a (n)ostalgic 60’s and 70’s homey set. The Ostalgie
is a German concept that expresses the nostalgia of the despairing dream and life style of
the former East Germany, the East.
The exhibition as a social cinema of 20 years of moving image art recreates the experience
of attending the multiple changes and views of Berlin, proposed to the viewer to experiment
an intimate perception of the artworks. The inventive, destructive and melancholic forces of
Berlin are revealed from the clash of the East and the West, the public and the intimae, the
political and the domestic, the painful and the ironic, the monumental and the heart. In all
the artworks the extraordinary is the pulsation.
Curator Paz Guevara
Media Architect Ralph Niebuhr
Curatorial Office Blandine Roselle
Lille3000 Team