Projection and discussion
Gaëlle Choisne
25 May 2022
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Gaëlle Choisne (born in 1985 in Cherbourg) lives and works in Paris and Berlin. She is involved with various private and public institutions in collective projects for cultural and solidarity-based initiatives in Haiti.
In her film Accumulation Primitive, she sets out to meet different women: a herbal healer (the “leaf doctor”) and a voodoo priestess in Haiti, French artist and music producer Christelle Oyiri and her mother, Marie-Carmel Brouard. Their stories intermingle with archival videos, poetic evocations of Haiti and philosophical reflections on the subjugation of women. Through this project, Gaëlle Choisne uses trial and error to search for the emancipatory connections between a collective and personal past and the chaos of the present. By adopting an orphan’s position, she builds her own genealogy in which she integrates the capacities of endurance, mutation and transmission of the subjects she represents.
Gaëlle Choisne, Accumulation primitive, 2020, 51 min
Screening followed by a conversation with Gaëlle Choisne by Thomas Conchou, Curator.
When
7pm - 9pm
Where
Accumulation primitive, 2020 © Gaëlle Choisne