Tania Gheerbrant 

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Smooth evolution
Known Shadows
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It’s raining today
come tomorrow ︎

Escape From Dystopia
Navigation of feeling

Alarme

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Septembre  2023_Group Show Au Lieu,
Cur. Noélia Portela, Paris, FR

September 2023_ Table Ronde, AWARE Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions / With (TBC) Clara Schulmann, Caroline Reveillaud.
Cur. Noélia Portela Paris, FR


November 2023_Duo show with Joon Yoo, cur. Margot Nguyen.
Mains D’Oeuvres, Saint-Ouen, FR

November 2023 
Soloshow at  HYBRID Box_Hellerau, 
Cur. pylon-lab, Dresden, DE




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April 2023_ Un lac inconnu, cur. Vittoria Matarrese
Bally Foundation, Lugano, CH


Lauréate Drac AIC IDF Project  : Twin in the clouds and other Story (2022-2023)

In residency at Mains d’Œuvres 2022-2023

Co-funder and membre in.plano, artist-run-space, FR

Membre de Initiative for Practices and Visions of Radical Care, lead by Elena Sorokina et Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez.

Active speaker Laboratoire Espace Cerveau, IAC, Institut d’art contemporain — Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes

Member « Comité Cultures et Création » Fondation de France, 2022-2024
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©2023_Tania Gheerbrant


The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Tania Gheerbrant, 2023, installation: lamps, steel and electric cables, variable dimension (in situ) . Exhibition view Tour Orion, Cur. Eladio Aguilera Hermoso. 2023



The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter , Tania Gheerbrant, 2023, installation: lamps, steel and electric cables, variable dimension (in situ) . Exhibition view Tour Orion, Cur. Eladio Aguilera Hermoso. 2023




Smooth Evolution,Tania Gheerbrant, HD colour video installation, 5'40'', 2018 remastered 2023. Exhibition view Tour Orion, Cur. Eladio Aguilera Hermoso. 2023




Smooth Evolution,Tania Gheerbrant, HD colour video installation, 5'40'', 2018 remastered 2023. Exhibition view Tour Orion, Cur. Eladio Aguilera Hermoso. 2023

Smooth evolution met en scène un groupe de cinq personnes affairé.e.s à manger une soupe dans un décor rétro typique des années 70.
Le caractère hypnotique de la musique et de la voix off, impose un rythme lent. Non loin d’une certaine poétique de l’étrange, la narration répétitive déplie, peu à peu, les différentes connotations du mot soupe : communicationnelle, idéologique, ou primitive *. Il s’agit ainsi autant de kaléidoscoper les temps que les interprétations.
Sous couvert d’un certain anachronisme, l’installation s’intéresse d’abord au discours contemporain sur la communication. C’est le décalage temporel, comme dans un film dit “d’époque",  qui permet ici de saisir la portée absurde des discours ambiants de notre société de communication.

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le milieu liquide dans lequel la vie est supposée être apparue

Smooth evolution features a group of five characters eating a soup in a typical 70s retro setting. The hypnotic soundtrack and the voice over together impose a slow rhythm. Not far from a poetic of the strangeness, the repetitive voice over gradually unfolds the different connotations of the soup: communicational, ideological, or primitive *.
The video displays kaleidoscopic times as much as it explores all the «soup» linguistic interpretations. Under the cover of an overplayed anachronism, the installation points up the alienation into contemporary communication discourses. It is this anachronism, as in a so-called vintage film, which allows us here to grasp the absurd significance of the ambient speeches of our communication in society.


* the liquid environment in which life is supposed to have begun





The heart is a solitary hunter, Tania Gheerbrant, 2023, installation: lamps, steel and electric cables, variable dimension (in situ) . Exhibition view Tour Orion, Cur. Eladio Aguilera Hermoso. 2023