Emmet Gowin
Ralph Eugene Meatyard
Alessandra Sanguinetti
Erik Kessels
Sadie Benning
Diane Dufour
Fannie Escoulen
13/1/2011
Five strange family albums
Le Bal, Paris
Five scenes in which bodies and places interact silently. exhibition and a program of artist's films
Five image-makers embark on ambiguous, precarious explorations of their family history. Five narratives of the wonderful yet painful rites of adolescence, the couple and the family. Five fragile balancing acts, between spontaneity and masquerade, the unspoken and revelation, intimacy and claustrophobia. Five familiar, innocent worlds marked by strangeness. Five scenes in which bodies and places interact silently. Five representations of time, haunted by spectres of loss or change. For the exhibition, Le Bal programs with Cinema des Cineastes a cycle of documentaries, fictional, experimental works and films by artists: "Vies de Famille". Artists: Emmet Gowin, The clearest Pictures were at first strange (1965-1973); Ralph Eugene Meatyard, The family album of Lucybelle Crater (1970-1972); Alessandra Sanguinetti, The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Meaning of their Dreams (1999-2010); Erik Kessels, My sister (2003); Sadie Benning, Flat is beautiful (1998). Curators: Diane Dufour and Fannie Escoulen. (image: Alessandra Sanguinetti, Camila, 1999, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York)