Marylène Negro
2021
C'est vous
Marylène Negro
The view of a lighthouse at dawn, subjected to a millimetric shift that is even less perceptible as movements of the text in the image are added to it. The specificity of these movements on the image comes from the way they penetrate into the image, creating a strange enlarged presence of the bodies, images, signs that brings about the dematerialization of the identity of each. Entering the Real means losing the world of objects and subjects, the world of opposition between reality and illusion in favor of a world where the most tangible effects of existence are constructed from traces and ghosts. (Jehanne Dautrey)
C'est vous
Ich sterbe
Marylène Negro
The film begins to move and a voice says: "Ich sterbe", then : "Je meurs" ("I'm dying"). A movie is said to move when the moves through the projection mechanism. Life is said to move on; there's also moving on for expiring in the sense of dying. A brief and interminable text, said by Chekhov and written by Sarraute, that Negro returns to us on an amnesiac image. This tale goes from Chekhov to Sarraute to Negro up to where we are - a body, before a page, a screen, a face. It's interminable. (Marie Muracciole)
Ich sterbe
Dark Continent
Marylène Negro
« A black, metaphysical hole around the face of Mary Magdalene which shifts Freudian psychoanalytical discourse towards the artist’s investigative practice, dualistic between the tenebrous and the (ultimate) radiance of light between the humanity in the filmed face and the eternal divinity of sculpture. » (Matthieu Orléan)
Dark Continent
