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CANICULE
Canicule: [kanikyl] nom féminin : scorching heat, heat wave, midsummer heat; dog days plural.
This video work shows a traumatic situation: the heatwave that struck France in the summer 2003. The catastrophe can be sensed. People follow their daily business in an unreal way. They are slowed down, disappearing in an undeterminable way, sometimes staying at the threshold of the obscure fog made by drizzle appliances until the suspicion rises to an unpleasant reality that could turn out to be dreadful. The relationship between documentation and construction is explored, and the video footage is juxtaposed against a purely digital image - screen of red rain.
Paris, France, 2003
Three Channel Video with Sound / Total Duration: 29 min 7 sec. loop > Edition of 5+2AP
4:3 PAL. 2 Ch Stereo / Installation dimensions variable
Canicule Installation documentations:
Canicule is a three channel video work. It is projected as three sequential frames joined seamlessly. The projection can vary in size appropriate to the space. The sound should be divided from all three sources in space, to clearly separate the sound from each source.
Canicule installation at Braverman Gallery, 2004, Tel Aviv, Israel Photo by: David Adika
Canicule installation at the Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, Germany June 2009
The video installation Canicule is accompanied by 10 sets of still works, (each in 10 editions) printed and matted on Plexiglas- 15 mm width and suspended from the wall by 5 cm. Size: 120 cm/ 34 cm.
Still images (click on images below to enlarge):
