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01 DEC - 17 FEB 2013
49 NORD 6 EST - FRAC LORRAINE - METZ (57)
Anne Immelé
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But…the clouds (2009— ) Drapeau 102 cm x 150 cm, impression sur maille drapeau 110gr © DR
As a symbol of a Nation, the flag is reassuring because it affirms continuity despite economic and social transformations. For her project But … the clouds, Anne Immelé has brought together the cloud and the flag. This cloud-flag no longer embodies a reassuring sense of national belonging, but instead shows its very sphere of influence; it does not promote the idea of the Homeland, but the idea of Humanity, of flux and exchange among all peoples. This flag challenges the relation between the universal and the particular, between the local and the global.
The cloud-flag is thus also a poetic call. The image of clouds takes us always elsewhere, always further, beyond man-made borders, beyond the foundations of society itself (family, economy, religion, patriotism) just as the outsider who is questioned in Charles Baudelaire’s poem. The outsider is a wanderer, with no ties. Asked about what he loves best, he rejects family, friends, fatherland, beauty and wealth, before concluding: “I love the clouds … the passing clouds … up there … up there … marvelous clouds!” Clouds embody freedom; they transgress territorial limits. Clouds are a summons towards infinity, beyond symbolic or real borders established by mankind.
This flag is part of a project of dissemination of cloud-flags.
A graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie in Arles and of the Université Laval in Quebec, Anne Immelé is a photographer, and holds a PhD in visual arts from the Université de Strasbourg. She teaches theory and aesthetics of photography at the University of Strasbourg and at HEAR (Haute École des Arts du Rhin). She has recently published Figures de l’éphémère. Sur la dimension de memento mori (in the collection Cahiers de recherché of the Université de Strasbourg—UFR ARTS). She is also the author of WIR, with Jean-Luc Nancy (Filigranes editions, 2003), Les Antichambres with Corinne Maury (Filigranes editions, 2009), and _TWIN CITIE_S (Kunsthalle editions, 2012). Her photographs are part of the collections of Fonds National d’Art Contemporain and of the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart.
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