EXHIBIT
Summer Currents
October 23, 2024 — November 8, 2024
WATERWORKS MUSEUM
Exhibition Summer Currents, Marie-Pierre Bonniol
October 18 – November 8, 2024
How do feelings move through the built environment? Marie-Pierre Bonniol’s Summer Currents examines the landscapes and gardens of Portugal’s north coast to reveal their underlying interconnections, where energy pathways are shaped by the perception of water—to the point of short circuiting. Through these images, Bonniol creates a narrative that is grounded in the mystery of the transmission of energy. This image book, presented in the US for the first time in video format with ghost page, is a tribute to the superimposed, contradictory spaces of the imagination. Composed as a kind of silent film about emotions, Summer Currents operates at the intersection of water and fire, up to the threshold of clarifying light, with the collaboration of Érik Bullot, Justus Saretz and Yann Sordet.
Leaf through the digital book online: https://studiowalter.com/books/summer-currents
Marie-Pierre Bonniol (*1978, Marseille, France) is a Berlin based artist and curator. She graduated in Visual arts (MFA) and in Aesthetics and Sciences of Arts (MA) from the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her research focuses on the affective dynamics of creation, and the matrices and machineries of transformation and transmission. She takes a particular interest in the myth of Bachelor Machines. Her work has been presented by several institutions such as ZKM in Karlsruhe, Anthology Film Archives and the Film-Maker’s Cooperative in New York, Centre Pompidou in Metz, CCCB in Barcelona and the National Library of Argentina.
http://mariepierrebonniol.com
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This exhibition is presented as part of the Power(s) of Water festival presented from September 27 to November 8, 2024 by Villa Albertine and Goethe-Institut Boston, with the support from the Franco-German Cultural Fund. The presentation of Summer Currents is done in partnership with Non-Event, Médiathèque André Malraux, CEAAC and Strasbourg UNESCO World Book Capital. Acknowledgements: Susanna Bolle, Till Schröder, Yann Sordet and Diva Stieffenhofer.
Image and Text Credit: © Marie-Pierre Bonniol, Summer Currents, 2023
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