Jessica Arseneau
Maybe It's Tomorrow, exhibition views, Galerie Historischer Keller, Berlin
Images fixes tirées de la vidéo
Maybe It's Tomorrow, 2023
Video HD, sound stereo
7:45 min.
Featuring: Aurélien Finance
Sculptor: Philippe Leonard
Project Assistant: Laura Haby
Camera: Jessica Arseneau, Laura Haby
Video/audio/colour editing: Jessica Arseneau
In the video Maybe It's Tomorrow, 2023, the camera pans over a stone carved in the shape of a human face, which gives the impression of being asleep in the heart of a forest in autumn. The formation of a rock dating from distant geological eras, this stone could have been asleep for several thousand years or be permanently fatigued, moss growing in the hollows of the rings under its eyes. A human figure lies on the stone in an immobility that recalls the exhaustion conveyed by the posture of the carved stone.
Shots of the forest alternate with images of the Earth scrolling across the screen along the twilight zone, allowing us to see both night and day, dawn and dusk. They capture permanently illuminated cities, showing places as sites that are almost always lit and bright. However, some places are not lit at night, such as places in crisis situations and areas that might seem untouched. What these imsages also show us is the continuous permanence of satellite image capture in orbit until the image ends up in a non-data zone.
Many thanks: Marie Paule Bilger, Jean-Jacques Delattre, Emmanuel Henninger, Jeremy Ledda, Florent Rusch, KM0, La Ferme Aventure, Motoco, Kunsthalle Mulhouse, Goethe-Institut Strasbourg
This project was created during the residency ALLEZ & ZURÜCK of the Goethe-Institut Strasbourg, in collaboration with Kunsthalle Mulhouse, Motoco, Goethe-Institut Nancy, the Bureau des arts plastiques and supported by OFAJ DFJW, DRAC Grand Est and Centre Français de Berlin.
This project is supported by the New Brunswick Arts Board
