On the occasion of the Un Week-End à l'Est festival, which this year honors the Romanian art scene, Cristian Mungiu, patron of this 9th edition, discusses the making of his book Une vie roumaine (A Romanian Life), in which he questions his relationship with truth and reminds us that storytelling remains an act of resistance. In conversation with Arnaud Laporte, journalist and producer at France Culture.
The quest for immortality, cryogenics, personal development, resource depletion, pyropictomania (or the pleasure derived from images of energy dissipation)... From the American West to the Atlantic coast, against a backdrop of climate catastrophe, we meet the authors of two books devoted to the technological turning point we are currently experiencing. How do these writings, connected to the visual arts and imbued with displacement, capture this turning point?
This event is organized in partnership with the research program “(D)écrire les œuvres, (re)penser les cartels” (Writing Works, (Re)thinking Labels), led by Anne Dressen (ENS Ulm – SACRe – PSL) and Yaël Kreplak (University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, HiCSA, Delphine Lévy Chair).
They have already collaborated and are familiar with each other's practices. This meeting will be an opportunity to look back on their recent exhibitions and exchange their views: organic forms, references to modernism and pop art, desire and feminism will be topics of discussion.
“My installation is a poetic exploration of existential tensions: the fragile body, seeking elevation, confronted with timeless, immutable architecture.” Liselor Perez
Images surround us, dominate us, haunt us. Some impose themselves by striking our minds, while others, more insidious, creep in and surprise us in our imaginations. Should we now learn to defend ourselves against them, because they are too aggressive or too seductive?
