The visual artist and a curator Thierry Fournier was sheltered at HÖFN while implementing his project: fenêtre augmentée (Augmented window),
during short, (but intense!) residences:
This third fenêtre augmentée installation (after a first one set up at Beaubourg, and another at Prats-de-Mollo (Pyrenees),
exhibits the works of Benjamin Laurent Aman, Marie-Julie Bourgeois, Grégory Chatonsky,
and a group including Christine Breton, Jean Cristofol, Jean-François Robardet and Thierry Fournier.
This group created Ultima Thulé, séries of 4 video installations.
It is only because the viewer (spectator) maintains his hand on the Window surface that he can get into the depth of the image.
He will in this way progressively join the 4 video loops (hand-held camera shootings in Marseilles North districts)::
the "Ravin de la Viste" , the "Castellas Oppidum", the Holy Tower ("Tour Sainte") ; the Lyons and Zoccola streets, with the Coptic Church and the flea market's street peddlers.
The physical resistance that this specific device applies, somehow keeps the landscape at bay:
the spectator can only momentarily get into the video loops (the artist's peculiar scrutinizing of those areas).
Ultima Thule is, in 320 BC, the name that Pytheas, a greek explorer from Marseilles, gave to unknown Northern Islands, beyond Great Britain.
Since Virgil, and until the Middle Ages, the word refers to the ends of Europe, and, by extension, the furthest possible lands to get to.
during location scoutings or shooting, some photos from La Viste...
during location scoutings or shooting, some photos from the Castellas oppidum ...
during location scoutings or shooting, some photos around the Tour Sainte...
during location scoutings or shooting, some photos of the Coptic Church (inside and ouside)...
Dominique Poulain, HÖFN's coordinator, throughout Última Thulé 's development, supported the project in several ways: artists' hosting and guiding,
location scoutings, photos while location scoutings and shooting, coordination.
- Production Zinc, Friche de la Belle de Mai, Silo - Marseilles City, Marseille-Provence European Capitale of Culture 2013
- Supported by Dominique Poulain / Höfn and Hôtel du Nord
Exhibition : on the ground floor of the Panorama Tower, Friche de la Belle de Mai,
41 rue Jobin, 13003 Marseille
From the 11th of May until the 31st of December 2013 (10am - 07pm / Free entry)
- Site Fenêtre augmentée link
- Zinc / Friche de la Belle de Mai :link
- Diffusion Fenêtre augmentée : link
The day before the vernissage of Fenêtre augmentée
Thierry Fournier and the Window
Jean Cristofol , Jean-Baptiste Droulers (technical manager and and engineering) and ZINC team
shot within l Benjamin Laurent Aman's work and Thierry Fournier's hand
Vernissage of Fenêtre augmentée
from left to right, , Thierry Fournier in front of the Window, Jean-François Robardet, Marie-Julie Bourgeois (artists), Jean-Baptiste Droulers (technical manager and and engineering)
on the right, the artist Marie-Julie Bourgeois soon eaten away by the Window (?)
