Ouazzani Carrier Selected Works

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1 Ouazzani Carrier Selected Works

2 Since 2015, we travel together, spending time in different peripheries in East Asia, Middle-East or Europe. Attentive to the landscape details and resources of each context, we explore the relations between nature and culture, inspired by animism and globalization. Our videos, photographic installations and infusions propose some fictions that mix pollution, ghosts, ruins and economics. From simple and daily situations, they confront environment and urbanization through History, stories and symbolic impact to rebalance those landscapes tensions. Recently, our work was presented in France at the art centers of Villa Arson and 3 bis f, 61th salon de Montrouge and Gaité Lyrique, in Germany at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, in Ukraine at the 5th Odessa Biennale, in Jordan at Darat al Funun, in South Korea at Gyeonggy Creation Center and in China at Bazaar Compatible Program and C-Platform.

3 Exposition périphérique 2017-, HD video, video link (extract) : A film currently shot in each city that has a border with Paris. This trip around the outside ring of Paris follows some gardeners that, as many resistance proposals to urbanization, take care of plants, cultivate some weeds, live in those suburbs interstices they reappropriate. WORK IN PROGRESS Exposition périphérique, 2017

4 Exposition périphérique 2017-, HD video, video link (extract) : Exposition périphérique, 2017

5 Real Estate Money 2018, extruded polystyrene, beeswax, rain capes Real Estate Money, 2018

6 Boulevard de la corderie 2018, photographs on digital compact cameras Boulevard de la corderie, 2018

7 Mauvaise graine 2017, Samuel Boutruche s furniture Megalith, weeds, soil Mauvaise graine, 2017

8 Petites couronnes2017, series of 4 lambda prints on dibond, floater frames, 40 x 60 cm Petites couronnes, 2017

9 Aubervilliers 2017, infusion, nettle, thistle and dandelion leaves Aubervilliers, 2017

10 Réservée 2017, HD video on monitor, 10, pedestals, ink print Based on the story of the first venetian merchant that used a cat to preserve his wheat storage from mice, the video installation carries us in the storage center of a french art institution in Marseille where a cat is freely meandering. Regarding the video, some pedestals from the Art center Villa Arson storage are presented with a frieze on them - as a nod to the antique friezes - using the Villa Arson ground pattern. [...] All those diverse elements build complex links about the history of speculation (the wheat and art pieces stocked in the storage) and of migration in the Mediterranean region. Gaël Charbau Réservée, 2017

11 Réservée 2017, HD video, 10, video link : Réservée, 2017

12 Séance : Infusion 2017, HD video on monitor, 16, speakers, power amp, olive leaves Séance : Infusion is an attempt to cure the past and ghosts of the hospital center Montperrin - a psychiatric hospital built in The installation compares the treatment and artistic gestures as many ways of resistance that contest the obviousness of scientific medical practices and the disciplinary architecture of hospital spaces. Séance : Infusion, 2017

13 Séance : Infusion 2017, HD video, 16, video link : Séance : Infusion, 2017

14 Montperrin 2017, infusion, olive and lotus leaves, tamarisk honey Montperrin, 2017

15 Shanghai Museum 2016, framed lambda print on dibond, 100 x 66,7 cm Darat Al Funun , framed lambda print on dibond, 100 x 66,7 cm Séance : Infusion, 2017

16 Bâtiment calais 2017, photographs on digital compact cameras Bâtiment calais, 2017

17 Séance : Infusion 2017, silkscreened bathrobes, wires Séance : Infusion, 2017

18 Catharsis , gravels, incense sticks Catharsis 2, 2017

19 Relief bas-relief 2016, extruded polystyrene insulating panels, ink print Relief bas-relief, 2016

20 Les Vagues 2016, digital prints on Arabic Louvre maps Les Vagues, 2016

21 Sand Plants 2016, HD video on monitor, 6, foliage plants Sand Plants evokes the recent transformation of Xiamen landscape in a beach resort. On these Chinese island, the closest to Taiwan, the intense urbanization reveals the Cold War ruins and highlights the importance of nature imitation in Chinese gardens. Sand Plants, 2016

22 Sand Plants 2016, HD video, 6, video link: Sand Plants, 2016

23 Sand Plants 2016, publication, digital prints, 80 pages Sand Plants, 2016

24 , working as a duo since 2015, are artists-explorers who travel quite light, preferring the material and cognitive resources of the different places they operate in with a fertile curiosity. Whether they draw inspiration from the history of an old Korean school during the Japanese colonization 1 or the motif of the ruin through the remains of past exhibitions in an art venue in Amman 2, the economy of their work is the same: making the most possible use of what is present, arranging objects and documents found on the spot to make the ghosts of history visible. Fleeting and evanescent phantoms, whose confused identity is based on the free association of objects and images revealing layers of culture. A sort of free erudition, exploded in space in the manner of iconographic collage that creates sculpture. In Cloud Cover (2016), made during a stay in Shanghai, it is the experience of atmospheric pollution that acts as a springboard for an eclectic assemblage. Incense sticks, traditional engraving of clouds, extracts from King Hu films, and evocation of the 19th century opium wars, among other things, make the link between China s industrial growth, toxicity and geography, revealing the hidden clues to a contemporary situation lurking in the crannies of history. This work operates in the mode of invocation more than evocation. The at once fertile and precarious association of disparate materials forms ghostly motifs. Though critically broaching the different methods of today images diffusion, the approach is not pedagogic, betting on a knowledge of the at times hazardous relation. If the references are not explicit, this is because they have resulted less from an active investigation than from a sort of «iconographic monitoring». So it is in the gaps that the essence of this art practise is to be found, borrowing more from Jean-Luc Godard and Jorge Luis Borges than from academic erudition, creating a sort of «cultural poetry» written in space. Guillaume Désanges 61st Salon de Montrouge s catalogue, Tracing Ghosts, A Library as a Film Set, 2015

25 Cloud Cover 2016, HD video on monitor, 3, digital prints, frames, incense sticks Cloud Cover develops some links between the haze representation in Chinese traditional art and the present pollution one in Shanghai. The installation seeks to establish a Zen balance between those two cloudy forms that sometimes seem to become confused. Cloud Cover, 2016

26 Cloud Cover 2016, HD video on monitor, 3, digital prints, frames, incense sticks Cloud Cover, 2016

27 Catharsis , incense sticks Catharsis 1, 2016

28 A Library as a Film Set 2015, HD video, projection, 1, digital prints, polaroids, frames, stones, tape A Library as a Film Set is a strolling between the ruins of Middle East. The successive architectural layers reveal the various civilizations that succeeded one another in the area and stress the temporary sign of those knowledge objects and ancient power places, major political, economical and cultural issues of our time. A Library as a Film Set, 2015

29 A Library as a Film Set 2015, digital prints, polaroids, frames, stones, tape A Library as a Film Set, 2015

30 A Library as a Film Set 2015, digital prints, polaroids, frames, stones, tape A Library as a Film Set, 2015

31 A Library as a Film Set 2015, digital prints, polaroids, frames, stones, tape A Library as a Film Set, 2015

32 A Library as a Film Set 2015, HD video, projection, 1 A Library as a Film Set, 2015

33 Tracing Ghosts 2015, HD video on monitor, 9, enlargers, light bulbs, sound censor Directed on the island of Daebu in South Korea, Tracing Ghosts evokes the past of an old school building, now used as an artists residency, that recruited orphan kids in the Japanese army during the country occupation. By playing with some tracing papers of artistic, historical and touristic images, three young Korean artists awaken the memories and ghosts of this place. Tracing Ghosts, 2015

34 Tracing Ghosts 2015, HD video, 9, video link: Tracing Ghosts, 2015

35 Marie Ouazzani* Master of Fine Arts, National High School of Art Villa Arson, Nice, France Nicolas Carrier** Master of Fine Arts, National High School of Arts Paris-Cergy, France Master of Cinema, La Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France Awards / Residencies Mains d Oeuvres, Saint-Ouen, France Boat of artistic research trip, Bretagne, France 3 bis f - lieu d arts contemporains, Aix-en-Provence, France Les Ateliers d Artistes Icade, Aubervilliers, France C-Platform, Xiamen, China École Offshore, Shanghai, China Darat al Funun, Amman, Jordan Gyeonggi Creation Center, Daebu, South Korea Video award, Marl Media Art Awards, Germany** Art Center Ongoing, Musashino, Tokyo, Japan** Duende Studios & Foundation B.a.d, Rotterdam, Netherlands** The Guesthouse, Cork, Ireland** Solo Exhibitions Séance : Infusion, Art Center 3 bis f, Aix-en-Provence, France Sand Plants, C-Platform, Xiamen, China Cloud Cover, Bazaar Compatible Program & Ooh La Art, Shanghai, China A Library as a Film Set, The Lab, Darat al Funun, Amman, Jordan Memories of Light at Dusk, Art Center Ongoing, Tokyo, Japan** Green Ghosts, The Guesthouse, Cork, Ireland** Smokescreen, AundV Gallery, Leipzig, Germany** Group Exhibitions / Screenings (selection) EXTEMPO, Gallery HLM / Hors-Les-Murs, Marseille, France Inventeurs d aventures, National Art Center - Villa Arson, Nice, France Sous le sapin, Gallery Untilthen, Paris, France Turbulence Aera, 5 th Odessa biennale, Ukraine Ubique, les vacances immobiles, Glassbox, Paris, France Avant le lever du jour ou mémoire d une utopie de banlieue, Ateliers d Artistes Icade, Aubervilliers, France Tourismes, Saison Video 61 st Salon de Montrouge, France Les Rencontres Internationales Paris / Berlin, Gaité Lyrique, Paris, France & Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany Festival OVNi, Nice, France Les Parages, Gallery la Ferronnerie, Paris, France Fantomachie, Le Dojo, Nice, France Odyssée, Villa Arson & Gallery de la Marine, Nice, France* 9 th Taehwa River Eco Art Festival, Ulsan, South Korea** Incubarte 7, MuVIM, Valencia, Spain** View, Generator Projects, Dundee, Scotland** Video night #6, Le Cube, independent art room, Rabat, Morocco* 3 rd New Media Arts Triennial Exhibition, Beijing Film Academy, China** Marler Medienkunst-Preise, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten, Germany** Videorover 3, Contemporary Arts Center of New Orleans, USA** Inside Out, Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany** Videorover 3, Nurtureart Gallery, New-York, USA** Les Rencontres Internationales Paris / Berlin, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France** This is a Recording, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, USA** Repetition Island, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France** Bande Annonce, La Conciergerie, Paris, France** Chapitre 6 : Orsol, Abbaye de Maubuisson, St-Ouen-L Aumône, France** Chutney Screening Chronography, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France** Public Collection Company collection Icade, France Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, Germany** Workshops La fabrique du regard / Le Bal, elementary school Tanger B, Paris, France En prêt, Art Center 3 bis f, Aix-en-Provence, France Raconte moi le paysage, Salon de Montrouge, France Tropicalized Vegetation, C-Platform & Xiamen University, China 1+1=3, Shanghai Institute for Visual Arts, China A Library as a Film Set, The Lab, Amman, Jordan