Amèlie Chabannes "Intimate Immensity and Lagerstatten"
Stephan Stoyanov Gallery
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The French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) presents the world premiere of a new work by Amèlie Chabannes as part of Crossing the Line, FIAF's annual transdisciplinary festival of contemporary arts. Chabannes, a French-born, New York visual artist explores the notion of identity and its various derivations and representations. The site-specific, mixed-media performance and installation will have its world premiere at the Stephan Stoyanov Gallery Wednesday, October 12 through Saturday, October 15.
In Intimate Immensity and Lagerstatten, Chabannes investigates the difficult task of capturing the depth and complexity of the human being. She uses the context of a staged archaeological dig to explore the enormity of the "person" within a specific philosophical and psychoanalytic framework.
Drawing on Carl Jung's Contributions to Analytical Psychology and Gaston Bachelard's Poetics in Space, Chabannes presents the "being" as a physical place by evoking an archaeological site. The piece consists of a massive rectangular block composed of dozens of layers and set in the center of a large and grid-filled open space. Over the course of several days, Chabannes excavates the piece, digging and breaking into it to release hundreds of fragments and artifacts-each to be archived, wherever it may fall.
We have to describe and to explain a building, the upper story of which was erected in the nineteenth century; the ground floor dates from the sixteenth century, and a careful examination of the masonry discloses the fact that it was reconstructed from a dwelling-tower of the eleventh century. In the cellar we discover Roman foundation walls, and under the cellar a filled-in cave, in the floor of which stone tools are found and remnants of glacial fauna in the layers below. That would be a sort of picture of our mental structure.- Carl Jung
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from October 12, 2011 to October 15, 2011