Paradise found in a disenchanted fairy tale

Martine Rouleau

Origin: Static Issue 01
Content: PDF / Video

“A man walks in a frozen desert. The immensity of the open space dwarfs him and the sky seems to weigh heavily on his shoulders as he struggles to reach a heavenly garden. But, just as it appears to be within his reach, he finds himself back at his starting point and he collapses, blood smeared on his face and shirt. He has fallen, but his paradise was never lost, because it was never found and only the spectator of the video installation ...”

This contribution is a collaboration between Martine Rouleau and Claude Ferland

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Contributors:

Claude Ferland
Born in 1973, Claude Ferland currently lives and works in Berlin. His work allies photographic images, video, music and installation in order to explore themes of strangeness and melancholia as incarnated by archetypal spaces such as gardens and prisons. By investigating our relation to space as a cinematic device, he plays with our understanding of narrative processes.
Claude Ferland’s work was exhibited in Moscow, Montreal ,Paris and Rennes.

Martine Rouleau
Martine Rouleau is Tate Fellow at the London Consortium where she is currently a PhD candidate. Her research interests pertain to the emergence and circulation of affects in the context of the museum in a philosophical perspective. She also collaborates to Canadian visual arts magazines on a regular basis and occasionaly lectures in semiotics and philosophy. She is known to her family and friends as an enthusiastic questioner, an inveterate horror film buff and a neophyte theremin player.

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