Emmanuelle Antille

The Center for Contemporary Images has closely followed the evolution of Emmanuelle Antille's work since its beginnings, and has already shown several of her creations. In 2001 a selection of her videos was featured during the 9th Biennial of Moving Images and subsequently acquired by our multimedia center. Her new series of works, grouped under the collective title «Tornadoes of My Heart,» comprises three video installations, a feature-length film, and some 30 photographs.

The Center for Contemporary Images will focus on one of the three installations, Floating, crashing, spinning, spitting, kissing, beating over and over, not to stop feeling. The first of these three videos was shown this summer at Art Unlimited during the Basel Art Fair; the final piece of the trio will be the subject of a show at the Jeu de Paume in Paris this autumn.

This new group of works takes shape around the lives of six teenagers in a small suburban community. Through a collection of intense, brutal, off-beat scenes that the artist has filmed with raw realism, viewers will find themselves plunged into the world of these young people.

Emmanuelle Antille offers us a new close-up look at the codes and rituals that are specific to one community, a collage of raw emotions where the line between fiction and reality gradually fades. The artist likes to run up against those limits that exist on the margins of the documentary film. The music of the installation on display at the Center for Contemporary Images was composed by the group Illford and Valérie Niederoest.

This work has been realised thank to the "Fonds d'art contemporain de la Ville de Genève (Fmac)".

Floating, crashing, spinning, spitting, kissing, beating over and over, not to stop feeling is one of the three installations that are part of a new corpus of works by Emmanuelle Antille called "Tornadoes of My Heart."

The installation is made up of a series of photos as well as six videotapes.

This piece presents a community of teenagers who have been left to themselves in a no-man's land of desolate settings. Together they mark off their territory and create their own codes and languages, under a highway overpass, in a scrap metal yard, an abandoned quarry or hotel—the various haunts that make up their domain.

The photographs are portraits of each of these teenagers. They are tightly focused portraits, detailing the particularity of each expression and stamping the density of each of their looks on the mind.

The videos alternately show static shots of these no-man's lands or tracking shots of tornadoes coupled with extremely intense close-ups of the teenagers. The film portraits are like so many frozen instances of expectation, longing looks, kisses, or feats of teenage glory.

In this installation viewers are thrust into the heart of those particular connections where landscapes echo the secrets and passions of youth.

Text Emmanuelle Antille

Emmanuelle Antille was bon in 1972 in Lausanne. She lives and works in Lausanne.

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Emmanuelle Antille
Floating, crashing, spinning, spitting, kissing, beating over and over, not to stop feeling