Chiharu Shiota | The Unsettled Soul | Kunsthalle Praha | Dazed
The Unsettled Soul 28 October 2024 – 28 April 2025Kunsthalle PrahaCzechia Around 400 kilometres of […]
Read More“While exploring the corridors of the Coupole at Galeries Lafayette, I was captivated by three large, long-abandoned bells. I made them ring, but their sound went unnoticed amidst the hustle and bustle rising from the store’s ground floor.
This discreet encounter sparked the idea for this film: to create both a sonic and visual connection between the Coupole, a public and iconic space in Galeries Lafayette, and the hidden backstage of the Grand Magasin. Sonic as two percussionists from the Nist-Nah ensemble are invited to compose a slow, intensifying symphony on the bells, generating vibrations that resonate throughout the staff offices. Visual because this vibration is materialized through a flower, itself an echo of the Art Nouveau stained glass windows of the Coupole. Initially motionless, this peony starts dancing to the rhythm of this seismic sound.”
Angelica Mesiti, 2023
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On the occasion of the 80th Venice Film Festival, in collaboration with Isola Edipo, world première of my new short film ‘Tremblement’ produced by Misia films and Galleries Lafayette as part of the screening ‘By Night’ 7th September, Venice Italy.
Tremblement, 2023
HD video,16:9, color, stereo sound
Duration : 5 minutes 40.
Edition of 5 + 2 AP