One, Emmanuelle Huynh, is a dancer, choreographer and philosopher;
the other, Jocelyn Cottencin, is a typographer, graphic designer and visual artist.
Since 2014, the two have drawn up portraits of cities using words and gestures.
Their ambition?
Tell the story of a territory by revealing its memory and witnessing its evolution.
The protocol - divided into three stages - is each time identical: location based on encounters, filming during which a certain number of performances will be filmed in the public space, and creation of a video-installation made up of these visual materials and sound.
“These projects can be described as a kind of fictional anthropology work.
There is no desire for realism and exhaustiveness here, or even documentary intentions. ”
Top 10 of the best museums in the world
Top 10 of the best museums in the world
1. Musée d'Orsay - Paris
The old railway station, transformed in 1986 by the Italian Gae Aulenti, houses an impressive collection of Impressionist art.
But not only.
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Top 10 of the best museums in the world
2. 9/11 Memorial - New York
At the original location of the Twin Towers destroyed by the 2001 bombing, visitors can remember and pay tribute to the victims.
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Top 10 of the best museums in the world
3. Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York
Travelers can explore more than 5,000 years of art from around the world at the "Met", one of the Big Apple's most famous museums.
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Top 10 of the best museums in the world
4. The British Museum - London
Greeted in the Grand Courtyard, designed by British architect Norman Foster, visitors can experience more than two million years of history and culture.
Among the exceptional pieces, we can mention the Rosetta Stone, the Parthenon sculptures and the Egyptian mummies.
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Top 10 of the best museums in the world
Top 10 of the best museums in the world
Top 10 of the best museums in the world
Top 10 of the best museums in the world
Top 10 of the best museums in the world
Top 10 of the best museums in the world
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After having collected the words and the moving bodies of the inhabitants of New York, in
A Taxi Driver
,
an Architect and the High Line
(above, 2016), and of Saint-Nazaire, with
We come too far to forget who we are
(2019), Jocelyn Cottencin and Emmanuelle Huynh continue this cycle by observing two other metropolises, Houston and São Paulo.
Between reality and fiction.
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The Carré d'Art, in Nîmes, also presents, as part of an exhibition entitled
Suspension / Stillness
, the works of five female artists whose works have recently entered the museum's collections.
Thus the paintings and sculptures of Suzan Frecon, Charlotte Posenenske, Lili Dujourie and Trisha Donnelly echo the poetic and colorful landscapes of Etel Adnan, who died on November 14 at the age of 96.
Beautiful posthumous tribute.
Emmanuelle Huynh and Jocelyn Cottencin.
From vertical, to horizontal, étale
and
Suspension / Stillness
, until March 13, at the Carré d'art – Musée d'art contemporain, in Nîmes.
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