Study day and Projection
Study day with the Opia Kolektiva collective and film projection by Marie Voignier, on a proposition by Pascale Cassagnau.
The history of objects and their representation in cinema is the history of the elaboration of singular dialogue spaces in the visual space. Caught between logics of use and exchange, objects carry representations. With the industrial or manufactured objects, it is all the territory of the work, the goods and its gestures, its labour, its chains of production which become the principal objects of the representation. Multiple temporalities, histories of objects as told today by historians Pierre Singaravélou and Sylvain Venayre in Le Petit magasin du monde: La mondialisation par les objets du XVIIIème siècle à nos jours, put into perspective the global and colonial trajectories of exchanged objects - art objects as well as objects of human industry -, modes of learning, transmission, confiscation.
From 2:00 pm
The taken side Opia Kolektiva, 'A Room of Our Time' (2023)
Opia Kolektiva's day at Fondation Pernod Ricard is a continuation of the research around the exhibition 'A Room of Our Time' which explores the place of the contemporary object within our daily lives. This exhibition took place in two parts, at the Galerie Michel Journiac (Paris) and at the Sample (Bagnolet) from March 28 to April 16. Conceived in partnership with the audiovisual fund of the Centre national des arts plastiques (Cnap) and with a view to supporting young creation, 'A Room of our Time' presented a rewriting of our daily lives through a selection of works oscillating between vernacular and spectacular. This day is an opportunity to take a look at the experience of Opia, to bring together the members in order to present a year of research and progress.
at 7:00 pm
Projection of the film Na China (2020) by Marie Voignier, followed by a discussion between the artist and Pascale Cassagnau
Na China, 71 min (2020)
« Filmé à Guangzhou, Na China est une enquête de terrain dans l'un des nouveaux centres du commerce globalisé où se font face l'Afrique et la Chine. Face à la mainmise économique chinoise en Afrique, une communauté africaine s’est installée à la source de ce marché pour y prendre part en court-circuitant la route de l’Occident. Marie Voignier s’intéresse en particulier aux trajectoires personnelles de négociantes africaines, dont l’activité déjoue les stéréotypes de genre et contribue à redéfinir le rôle des femmes dans l’économie mondialisée. » - Marcella Lista
Opia Kolektiva is the meeting of 17 young curators from the Sciences et techniques de l'exposition master's program at the University of Paris 1. The collective is at the origin of the exhibition project 'A Room of Our Time' in partnership with the Centre national des arts plastiques (Cnap). Pascale Cassagnau is an art historian. She is responsible for the audiovisual funds of the Cnap.
Pascale Cassagnau is an art historian. She is in charge of the audiovisual funds of the Cnap.
Marie Voignier (1974) is an artist and filmmaker. She currently lives and works in Paris, where she is represented by the Galerie Marcelle Alix. After studying physics and practicing photography, she joined the School of Fine Arts in Lyon. Her work now focuses on filmmaking, presented in international film festivals (Berlinale, FID Marseille, Visions du Réel) and in exhibitions in France and abroad (the Venice Biennale in 2017, at LAXART in Los Angeles and the Guangdong Times Museum in 2019). Marie Voignier is above all interested in knotted realities, in complex histories where several truths are mixed. Each of her projects is built according to a singular method, guided by the subject and the human relationships it weaves.
