Back to search results. Back to Collection. Date: Medium: HD Video, 5 photo collages. The Center Cannot Hold. Group show from 20 Jun to 09 Sep Danielle Dean, Bazar , Bazar seeks to deconstruct the gender roles assigned by these objects, as well as the imaginaires of race and class they evoke.
In parallel, Danielle Dean gathered around her a group of four French women, mainly of African descent, to discuss their relationship to marketing strategies and consumerism through a series of semiotic workshops led in partnership with French scholar Maboula Soumahoro. The outcome of this process is a minute-long video showing the four women alongside the artist traversing several set-ups of the archives while turning objects into props. Visually, the video ingeniously merges together images with different qualities, from archives to illustrations, passing through 3D animation.
The video embeds in the work the voices of the four participants who recount personal memories collected through interviews throughout the work process. They emphasize how creativity offers a way to engage with over-determining power dynamics in subject construction. Furthermore, several photo collages accompany the video and extend its universe of the deconstruction of images.
First institutional presentation in France. Film still. Only persons authorised by Lafayette Anticipations - Galeries Lafayette Fondation will be recipients of this information and will be able to access it for strictly internal purposes.
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