FROM WHAT SHE TOLD ME, AND HOW I FEEL

  • FROM WHAT SHE TOLD ME, AND HOW I FEEL Presented by Julio (Paris, France) From what she told me, and...

    FROM WHAT SHE TOLD ME, AND HOW I FEEL

    Presented by Julio (Paris, France)

     

    From what she told me, and how I feel comes of a collaboration between Celeste Leeuwenburg and her mother, visual artist Delia Cancela. After discovering a film in her mother’s library, produced by her in the 1970s, the artist decides to provide the little piece of punk and feminist history with a modern interpretation. Part parade, part performance, part dance, the work was made with a dozen non-professional dancers, among whom Cancela and Leeuwenburg. At stake are the limits of documentary, as are the boundaries between film and photography. The artist-daughter’s gesture confronted with her artist-mother’s legacy considers questions of lineage, navigating between cultural and family heritage. Here, bodies retain family memories, historical awareness, and their multiple interpretations.

  • CURATOR: Taous Dahmani Born 1990 in Paris, France. Lives and works between Paris, Marseille, and London, France/England. Taous Dahmani is...

    Portrait of Taous Dahmani © Lynn S.K.

    CURATOR: Taous Dahmani 

    Born 1990 in Paris, France.
    Lives and works between Paris, Marseille, and London, France/England.
     
    Taous Dahmani is a French, British and Algerian art historian, writer and curator specialising in photography. Her academic research focuses on the photographic representation of struggles and the struggle for photographic representations. Her projects mainly involve the links between photography and politics — such as the visual culture of protests, migratory narratives and intersectional feminist discourses. She has published in various scientific journals and art magazines. She regularly gives papers in academic conferences and holds public ‘in-conversations’ with photographers. Taous Dahmani is also editor and content advisor at The Eyes Publishing, a trustee of the Photo Oxford Festival, and on the editorial board of MAI: Visual Culture and Feminism.
  • ARTIST: Celeste Leeuwenburg Born 1986 in Paris, France. Lives and works in Paris, France. French-Argentine artist Celeste Leeuwenburg trained alongside...

    Portrait of Celeste Leeuwenburg © Xavier Schwebel

    ARTIST: Celeste Leeuwenburg

    Born 1986 in Paris, France.
    Lives and works in Paris, France.
     
    French-Argentine artist Celeste Leeuwenburg trained alongside other artists in Argentina before returning to France for a residency. In her work, she tries to revive the memory of the art movements of the 1970s and 1980s, especially dance and performance, paying particular attention to the direction of bodies. The series From what she told me, and how I feel marked her start as a video artist. For ten years, she has worked on a documentary project about an Argentine dancer, Marcia. Her work has been exhibited in Paris, Buenos Aires, Madrid, and New York.

  • Celeste Leeuwenburg. Film still from the video From What She Told Me, And How I Feel, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2019. Courtesy of the artist.

  • Celeste Leeuwenburg. Film still from the video From What She Told Me, And How I Feel, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2019. Courtesy of the artist.

  • Celeste Leeuwenburg. Film still from the video From What She Told Me, And How I Feel, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2019. Courtesy of the artist.

  • Celeste Leeuwenburg. Film still from the video From What She Told Me, And How I Feel, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2019. Courtesy of the artist.