30/11/2007
Miguel Bonneville
Rosalux, Berlin
Family Project. begins by looking at family albums from the 70's, holiday and wedding albums too. He has always had an obsession with those images where everything seemed idyllic and perfect. Now he intends to reconstitute these pictures in a "live family portrait".
"MB - Family Project": this is the name of the project that MB is developing. He begins by looking at family albums from the 70’s, holiday and wedding albums too. He has always had an obsession with those images where everything seemed idyllic and perfect. Now he intends to reconstitute these pictures. More than 100 were selected. In an early stage, MB is photographed with a feminine (Mother) and a masculine (Father) wardrobe that refer to that period. He recreates his parents’ expressions and positions in each picture. Then the original pictures are ‘reconstituted’ digitally.
The second part of the project consists in a ‘live’ family portrait. MB invites several people to be filmed for 3 minutes – this being related to Andy Warhol’s “Screen Tests” – an evident artistic reference. Some of these people will then be chosen to participate in the family portrait – a tableau vivant.
Still on MB’s work: if his starting point is his personal life, an autobiographic dimension clearly exists. MB tells us that the main goal is that people will recognise common references. We are not dealing with his relationship with his parents but with our own relationship with our parents.
(Sara Pais)
MB - FAMILY PROJECT
is the creation of moments based on my parents’ photographs from the 70's. It is the consequence of an obsession, the search for a reason for the falling apart of a union that seemed so perfect, the construction of a new family. MB - FP is essentially about a loss. The loss of something I have never had.
PERFORMANCE#1 (MISTRESS)
it is the first time that I speak of my father’s mistress. the falling apart of my parent’s marriage is something I am always trying to recreate, to understand. not long after I was born, they separated. not long after I was born, the mistress appeared. I was three years old. my only memory of this period is my mother crying desperately on the floor.
(MB)
Miguel Bonneville was born in Oporto, 1985.Lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal.
Works in the fields of live art, performance and visual art.
Attended the acting course at the Academia Contemporânea do Espectáculo (Oporto) and the Visual Arts course organized by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Oporto).
Worked with Francisco Camacho, Carlota Lagido and La Ribot amongst others. Since 2003 presents his performance-based work in Portugal, Italy, Spain, Poland and Germany
miguelbonneville.blogspot.com
http://www.myspace.com/miguelbonneville
Opening: December, 1st 2007 at 7 pm
Rosalux
Elisabethkirchstrasse, 11 - Berlin
Free admission