France, South Korea
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2019
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14
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Free Screening
The video narrates the journey of the westward bound European conquerors en route to the East Indies. Upon discovery of the Americas, they knew next to nothing about this new world and mistakenly named it « Western Indies ». Henceforth local inhabitants would be named Indians. The video’s soundtrack features a Native American tune (by the Kali’na people of French Guiana and Suriname) as sung in Tamil (a language from Southern India). The tale under-goes a slow transformation: now it’s not so much a journey from East to West as it is an inner quest, a discovery of the Self as Terra incognita.
Travels to our Inner Indias endeavours an exploration of the successive layers of the Self: the external layer, which interfaces with westernised life-styles and global flows ; the middle layer, that of focal sight and the strength of designation ; the deep layer, that entails peripheral vision and inner sen-sations.
Daphné LeSergent
Daphné Nan Le Sergent's work considers the image as a medium of memory dependent on the production of raw materials, in the current shifting context of globalization and its economic wars. Born in 1975 in South Korea, Daphné Le Sergent lives and works in Paris. She is an HDR lecturer in the Photography Department at Paris 8 University. Solo exhibitions (recent) : DAO (NEMO Biennale/La Capsule, 2023) , Defected Times (Contretype, Brussels, 2023); Silver memories, (CPIF, 2021/ Casino Luxembourg, Mois Européen de la Photographie, 2021/Atelier Hermès, Seoul, South Korea, 2019); Géopolitique de l'Oubli (Jeu de Paume/ CAPC/ Museo Amparo, Mexico, 2018).
May 23, 2024 7:30 PM
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May 23, 2024 9:00 PM
Dazibao Gallery
Short Film
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