Oggi è stato presentato il Padiglione Francia della Biennale di Venezia, che sarà realizzato da Zineb Sedira. L'artista ha ideato un’installazione cinematografica in cui il film Les rêves n’ont pas de titre (“I sogni non hanno titolo”) contribuirà a immergere i visitatori in un universo dai valori profondamente umanistici.
Prendendo le mosse dal clima militante, culturale e politico che ha animato il cinema degli anni 60 e 70 in Francia, Italia e Algeria, l’artista affronterà, più in generale, argomenti dalla portata universale e soggetti d’attualità, come la lotta contro le discriminazioni e il razzismo, la decolonizzazione, la libertà, la solidarietà, l’identità o la famiglia. Un lavoro molto attuale che riflette sui concetti di post- colonialismo.
Il Padiglione francese è prodotto dall’Istituto francese. Per la prima volta verrà misurata la sua impronta carbonica, con lo scopo di raggiungere una riduzione di almeno il 25% dell’impatto del Padiglione (esplorazione e produzione) entro fine 2026.
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A significant artist of her generation, Zineb Sedira will represent France at the 59th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, to be held 23 April to 27 November 2022 (professional days: 20–22 April).
Zineb Sedira will take over the French Pavilion with a cinematographic installation where the film, Les rêves n’ont pas de titre / Dreams have no title, will immerse visitors into a universe built on deeply humanistic foundations.
With the spirit of cultural and political activism that drove the filmmaking of the 1960s and 1970s, in France, Italy and Algeria, as her starting point, the artist will embrace themes imbued with universality, themes that are incredibly relevant today, including the fight against discrimination and racism, decolonisation, freedom, solidarity and identity, as well as family.
To realise this project, Zineb Sedira has surrounded herself with three curators, each of whom is also, and perhaps above all, part of her immediate intellectual and artistic family: Yasmina Reggad and the duo formed by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath.
From the beginning of her career, Zineb Sedira has developed a polymorphic practice, borrowing in turn from autobiographical narrative, fiction and documentary.
In Venice, city of the Biennale of Art and the Film Festival, Zineb Sedira will reveal her passion for the cinema of the 1960s and 1970s, when the first co-productions between France, Italy and Algeria appeared. At the time, the latter’s film production was growing, and driven by a desire for international cultural exchanges, it benefitted from the support of established French and Italian professionals.
Research for the pavilion project led Zineb Sedira to find Les mains libres (or Tronc de figuier) in Italy, realised by the Italian director Ennio Lorenzini in 1964. This portrait of a newly liberated young state that had just won its freedom was the first feature-length film produced in independent Algeria.
Screened at the Festival de Cannes, in Italy and Algeria, it then disappeared from screens and from memory.
The new multiform work for the French Pavilion will bear witness to these intellectual and artistic solidarities, which were important parts of the utopias of the 1960s, to question decolonisation, notions of identity, acceptance of the other, memory, and to look at collective and individual histories from multiple angles.
Zineb Sedira often blends elements from her own life, connecting her family, both by blood and by choice, to reach a universality through her own experiences thanks to her artistic practice.
The project in Venice will be an opportunity for the artist to create an immersive experience blurring the boundaries between fiction and reality.
The research that Zineb Sedira has carried out for more than two years in preparation for the Biennale, will be showcased, alongside her intellectual and artistic entourage, in three journals. A nod to the activist magazines of the 1960s, these publications will introduce the public to a multitude of references and questionings, inspiring curiosity and deepening the subject. The first issue will be launched at a press conference.
Zineb Sedira was selected for the French Pavilion in 2019 by a specialist committee chaired by Charlotte Laubard (art historian and curator, professor and head of the visual arts department, Haute Ecole d’Art et de Design de Genève - HEAD).
The French Pavilion is produced by the Institut français. For the first time, the pavilion’s carbon footprint will be measured in order to achieve a minimum reduction of 25% of its impact (both in operational and production terms) by the end of 2026.
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