ArtJaws announces the new Constance Juliette Meffre’s monographic selection

Constance Juliette Meffre, artistic producer and curator, is coming back on ArtJaws with a new monographic selection that takes the name of “Archive of a Strike” with the artist Paul Destieu.

HER BIOGRAPHY

Constance Juliette Meffre is an artistic producer and curator. After being Assistant of Preservation at the Pierre Gianadda Foundation (Switzerland), she was in charge of the production of « Instants Vidéo Numériques et Poétiques » and developed with them the 50 years anniversary of video art in Japan within the framework of Marseille, Capital of Culture 2013. Since late 2013 she has created and now manages Diffusing Digital Art at the Galerie des Grands Bains Douche in La Plaine, Marseille, and contributes to the creation of an international network of residencies in different places and with different artists. She also supports the artistic production all along its creative process, working closely with artists and cultural institutions, and is a member of the C-E-A, the French association of art curators.

ABOUT HER MONOGRAPHIC COLLECTION FOR ARTJAWS “ARCHIVE OF A STRIKE”

Paul Destieu’s practice includes the creation of videos, installations and sound works. Destieu questions the evolution of the media and their situations in our current environment. The project entitled “Archive of a Strike” is focused on the materialization of sound and musical forms. This work suggests a collision of sound and plastic structures by inviting visual practices and contemporary media in a sensitive re-reading of musical languages. The project combines a series of polymorphic creations, resulting from the capture and the analysis of the movements of a percussionist drummer, focused on the emerging tensions between the musician and his instrument. This experiment is based on the temporal and spatial deployment of a gesture, the chopsticks mechanically translating a relation to time by the interpretation of rhythm, and of sound by a physical development. Each stage of the production chain successively proposes a digital appropriation of this unique gesture. Once captured, modelled and printed in three dimensions, the stroke is extracted from its context to freeze the counter-form of the interpreter and the instrument. The archive brings together a series of works between listening and seeing.

THE ARTIST OF “ARCHIVE OF A STRIKE”: PAUL DESTIEU

Paul Destieu lives and works in Marseille, France. His researches question the evolution of media and their situation in our contemporary environment. His work is noticeably influenced by the history of technologies, languages, sound and cinema. His visual art practice often extends to a wider range of media, looking for new forms of expression and logics through sound, installation, digital practices and architecture. His work grasps tentions between the emergence and disappearence of tools from different times, exploring the border between emergence and collapsing of a system. He is co-founder of Otto- Prod / La Vitrine and currently organizes cultural exchanges and initiatives between France and Slovenia.

Paul Destieu is presenting on March 10th his project “Echoes of Independence” at the Ateliers Claus in Brussels. This one proposes the development of a plastic composition through the prism of photography. This project of creation intended an installation that would replay the form of the concert and whose interpretation would be assigned to a set of slide projectors: optical apparatus whose operation of rudimentary automaton offers a self-reflexive technological vision, singling out the relationship between the gesture musical and reflex mechanisms. The project develops into an automated composition in which photography and sound creation combine in a percussive audio-visual sequencing, that reveals the mechanisms of the sonic gesture and offers an appropriation of the primary faculty, psychomotor coordination, of the different organs of the musician, or “independence experience”.