EXHIBITION
07 MAR - 04 MAY 2014
49 NORD 6 EST - FRAC LORRAINE - METZ (57)
Classé X
X years in a site rated X
E. Baudelaire, (Sic), 2008. Video Stills. Courtesy of the artist
Beware of vacillations of values, caving certitude, and other historical assumptions. Let virtuous resolutions and masked acquiescence tremble! This is the word of disorder addressed to whoever has ears to listen and the desire to live by it in our site, now rated X.
> A compact library of banned books and films
A small library of banned books to remind us that culture and customs on this subject have hardly changed. Court cases are all alike and follow on each other’s heels. Morality is always offended while self-censorship only changes its masks.
Prudery, morality, violence, defamation, sexuality, religion, self-censorship, and discrimination are the recurring motivations behind censorship across the ages. Only the boundaries shift with changing taboos, beliefs, and blinders… Come and encounter censorship both large and small of literary and cinematic works which helps to underscore the fact that a number of masterpieces had gone through some dark times.
> Eric Baudelaire
(SIC), 2008
video, 15 min
Bokashi is a Japanese technique of fogging, or erasure of images that may “unnecessarily excite or stimulate desire.” In the legal grey area surrounding the 1907 law of the Japanese penal code which prohibits the sale or display in public of “any document, drawing, or any other obscene object,” Eric Baudelaire takes this gesture to the absurd, beyond the notion of desire. The gesture is repeated, ritualized, and because almost meditative…
http://baudelaire.net/anabases/sic/
> Jérémie Bennequin
OMMAGE 2.1 : In the Search of Lost Time II, Within a Budding Grove (part 1) / Manual, Paris 2013.
Artist’s book, 14×20 cm, bound, 2 volumes (200 pages & 128 pages).
Limited edition of 70 copies, numbered and signed.
« Ommage » is a generic title of a scriptoclast work based on the erasure of literary texts. An ambiguous, quasi-cultural and somewhat sacrilegious gesture, where destruction is also creative——damage as homage.
http://jbennequin.canalblog.com/
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