Exhibition
Valérie Mréjen - "Mon cher fils"
2 Jun 2018 – 19 Aug 2018
Event times
Open from Wednesday to Sunday from 1pm to 6pm
Cost of entry
3,5 euros full price / 3 euros reduced price / free of charge for children until 18 y.o., unemployed and retired people, ICOM, IKT, C-E-A and Aica members
Address
- 7 rue Teste du Bailler
- Vienne
Rhone-Alpes - F-38200
- France
Travel Information
- TER Rhône-Alpes / Vienne train station
Solo exhibition of French artist and writer Valérie Mréjen (b. 1969, lives and works in Paris), including new artworks especially produced at the occasion.
About
Visual artist, photographer, writer, Valérie Mréjen (b. 1969, lives and works in Paris) multiplies the means of expression to better explore the language’s possibilities. Her videos are often inspired by memories, everyday events, cruel and farcical details of existence, platitudes, misunderstanding... She mixes it with various types of reported or experienced stories that she rewrites and rearranges, before staging it.
For her new project in Vienne, Valérie Mréjen has worked from a 1920s postcards collection coming from the City’s Archive. From this correspondence between a father (Baptiste) and his son (Claudius, gone to Morocco for military duty) derives a strong filial relationship, which serves as a starting point for a new video in which singular stories are embodied in the narrator’s voice-over.
Through a subtle play of cropping and reframing the pictures of Vienne reproduced onto some of these postcards, Valérie Mréjen also brings to life short plots: displayed within La Halle des bouchers space, these narrative scenes create a link between image and storyline, at the same time sensitive, historical and senseless.
In partnership with Lettres sur cour festival and Lucioles Bookstore, Valérie Mréjen will propose a reading on Saturday, June 2, at 4 pm at Centre d’art contemporain La Halle des bouchers.
Valérie Mréjen is represented by Anne-Sarah Bénichou Gallery, Paris
