Francophone artists featured in the 14th Havana Biennale

Among the proposals are the works of French artist Edith Roux and Belgian artist Jana Beck The 14th Havana Biennale, which is approaching until April 30th of Contemporary Visual Creativity.

Ru poses in the installation of video shooting decal film A sensitive, poetic and political look at fragile and transitional spacessays .’s website The French Embassy in Cuba.

“His work suggests a Analyzing man’s place in oceanic regions, whether in China, the United States, Europe, Ivory Coast, Cuba or France”, The document indicates the prolific path of the creator of more than two decades, marked by experimentation and the search for new visual forms.

According to the text, decal film It dates back to 2018 and places the visitor in front of a large printed image of an abandoned colonial-era movie screen. Pasted it on the gallery wall, while the video recorded in Abobo, a neighborhood north of Abidjan, is projected onto the image.

for this part, Beck combines digital painting, video projections, and music in a piece titled framedas a result of collaboration with a group of artists from the Caribbean country.

Born as part of a research project conducted by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium, in collaboration with Maxlab and Lab101, The work is part of the agenda for the Havana Biennial, along with the Cuban groups Axis Visual Lab and Tocar Pronto..

to implement it, Creative people interpret the sounds of their surroundings and translate them into beatson digital painting devices, insofar as it serves, at the same time, as a source of inspiration for musicians, “thus creating an ambiance,” the text notes.

(with information from Prensa Latina)

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