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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