Edition 2022
as part of the Louis Roederer Discovery Award
PRESENTED BY
JULIO, PARIS, FRANCE
CELESTE LEEUWENBURG
FROM WHAT SHE TOLD ME, AND HOW I FEEL
From what she told me, and how I feel comes of a collaboration between Celeste Leeuwenburg and her mother, visual artist Delia Cancela. After discovering a film in her mother’s library, produced by her in the 1970s, the artist decides to provide the little piece of punk and feminist history with a modern interpretation. Part parade, part performance, part dance, the work was made with a dozen non-professional dancers, among whom Cancela and Leeuwenburg. At stake are the limits of documentary, as are the boundaries between film and photography. The artist-daughter’s gesture confronted with her artist-mother’s legacy considers questions of lineage, navigating between cultural and family heritage. Here, bodies retain family memories, historical awarness, and their multiple interpretations.
Exhibition curator: Taous Dahmani.
Musical composition : Chloé Thévenin