Follicular Images, 2023
Three-channel digital video installation, stereo sound, duration: 17 min looped.
Follicular Images is an investigation of a specific Western imaginary: prehistoric women dragged along by their hair by prehistoric men. These popular depictions of fantasised prehistoric times surfaced in the 19th century and gained agency until the 1950s, often presented as historical facts. This project takes on this representation, choreographing bodies in resilience, in an attempt to unwind our construction of power relations and open up new possibilities for writing different collective tales.
On show as part of the Department of Art Postgraduate Degree Shows 20-25 July 2023 in Laurie Grove Baths Small Pool, Goldsmiths University of London.
Three-channel digital video installation, stereo sound, duration: 17 min looped.
Follicular Images is an investigation of a specific Western imaginary: prehistoric women dragged along by their hair by prehistoric men. These popular depictions of fantasised prehistoric times surfaced in the 19th century and gained agency until the 1950s, often presented as historical facts. This project takes on this representation, choreographing bodies in resilience, in an attempt to unwind our construction of power relations and open up new possibilities for writing different collective tales.
On show as part of the Department of Art Postgraduate Degree Shows 20-25 July 2023 in Laurie Grove Baths Small Pool, Goldsmiths University of London.
Ludivine Large-Bessette Follicular Images, 2023, three-channel digital video installation, stereo sound, duration: 17 min looped.
Ludivine Large-Bessette Follicular Images, 2023, three-channel digital video installation, stereo sound, duration: 17 min looped.
Ludivine Large-Bessette Follicular Images, 2023, three-channel digital video installation, stereo sound, duration: 17 min looped.
Ludivine Large-Bessette is a French artist working at the intersection of video, photography and contemporary dance. She uses the body as an object and motif to capture our desires for power and limits (artificial, physical, and normative). In this way, cinema techniques present themselves to her as a gateway to new writing and the creation of hybrid stories. Historical and popular images, from which she often draws inspiration, support the construction of contemporary allegories that reverse the viewer's position and our relationship to progress and power strategies.
Her work has been exhibited widely including in: Addis Foto Fest, Filmwinter Festival for Expended Media Stuttgart, Instants Vidéo Marseille, Internationale TanzFilmPlattform Berlin, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Salon de Montrouge, Aesthetica Art Prize York, La Nuit Blanche Paris, Centre des arts d'Enghien- les-Bains, Maison des Arts de Malakoff, Centre d'art contemporain Espace Croisé de Roubaix, Le Gymnase CDCN Roubaix, le Carreau du Temple Paris. In 2023, she was awarded the Wicar Prize Lille and the Art of change21 Palais de Tokyo Paris Eco-Design Art Prize.
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Her work has been exhibited widely including in: Addis Foto Fest, Filmwinter Festival for Expended Media Stuttgart, Instants Vidéo Marseille, Internationale TanzFilmPlattform Berlin, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Salon de Montrouge, Aesthetica Art Prize York, La Nuit Blanche Paris, Centre des arts d'Enghien- les-Bains, Maison des Arts de Malakoff, Centre d'art contemporain Espace Croisé de Roubaix, Le Gymnase CDCN Roubaix, le Carreau du Temple Paris. In 2023, she was awarded the Wicar Prize Lille and the Art of change21 Palais de Tokyo Paris Eco-Design Art Prize.
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Ludivine Large-Bessette, Blind Wheels, 2022.
Blind Wheels (2022)
Single-channel video installation, variable dimensions, duration: 8 mins looped.
Inspired by medieval representations of the wheel of fortune, Blind Wheels (2022) tackles our ambivalent relationship with tools and technology. From technical prowess and its intoxicating speed, to its runaway speed that can lead to our own downfall, to what extent do we choose to be actors, subjects and responsible for the movement of this wheel, an echo of our cult of progress?
First shown as part of the exhibition Call It What You Will, The Moment Has Its Own Dimensions at APT Gallery, March 2022.
Single-channel video installation, variable dimensions, duration: 8 mins looped.
Inspired by medieval representations of the wheel of fortune, Blind Wheels (2022) tackles our ambivalent relationship with tools and technology. From technical prowess and its intoxicating speed, to its runaway speed that can lead to our own downfall, to what extent do we choose to be actors, subjects and responsible for the movement of this wheel, an echo of our cult of progress?
First shown as part of the exhibition Call It What You Will, The Moment Has Its Own Dimensions at APT Gallery, March 2022.
Ludivine Large-Bessette, Blind Wheels, 2022. Installation view at APT Gallery.
Ludivine Large-Bessette, Blind Wheels, 2022. Installation view at APT Gallery.
Related exhibitions & events:
Group Exhibition: Call It What You Will, The Moment Has Its Own Dimensions, A.P.T Gallery 17-27 March 2022
Panel Discussion: 24-March 2022, 5pm
Postgraduate Degree Shows: Goldsmiths, University of London, 20-25 July 2023
Group Exhibition: Call It What You Will, The Moment Has Its Own Dimensions, A.P.T Gallery 17-27 March 2022
Panel Discussion: 24-March 2022, 5pm
Postgraduate Degree Shows: Goldsmiths, University of London, 20-25 July 2023