Roux poses in the video-photography installation Ciné décalé, a sensitive, poetic and political look at fragile and transitional spaces, details the website of the French Embassy in Cuba.
“Her work proposes an analysis of the place of the human in peripheral territories, whether in China, the United States, Europe, the Ivory Coast, Cuba or France,” says the document, which points to the prolific career of the creator for more than two decades, marked by experimentation and the search for new visual forms.
As the text explains, Ciné décalé dates from 2018 and installs the visitor in front of a photograph of a large abandoned movie screen from the colonial era printed and pasted on the exhibition wall, while the video recorded in Abobo, a neighborhood north of Abidjan.
For his part, Beck combines digital drawing with video projections and music in the piece entitled Framed, which is the result of collaboration with a group of artists from the Caribbean nation.
Born as part of a research project carried out by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium in collaboration with Maxlab and Lab101, the work is part of the agenda of the Havana biennial, together with the Cuban groups Axis Visual Lab and Tocar Pronto.
For its execution, the creators interpret the sounds of their environment and translate them into strokes, made on digital drawing devices, while serving, at the same time, as inspiration for the musicians, “thus generating an enveloping atmosphere,” the text points out. .
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