Ali Kazma @ Venice Biennale * Bibracte * CPIF * Normandie Impressioniste
Resistance (Video Still), 2013, © Ali Kazma
55th Venice Biennale * 1 June – 24 November 2013
Resistance, Turkish Pavillon
Ali Kazma will represent Turkey with a video series under the title Resistance at the 55th International Art Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia from 1 June to 24 November 2013. Curated by Emre Baykal, the Pavilion of Turkey will be located at Artiglierie, Arsenale.
Resistance is a survey on the discourses, techniques and management tactics developed for the body today and focuses on the interventions and strategies that both release the body from its own restrictions and restrict it in order to control it. Ali Kazma attempts to read the complex meanings and the enigma produced by the body as a physical and conceptual space from within a broad network of relations. In this multi-channel video installation to be premiered in Venice, Kazma researches the networks that shape the body within social, cultural, economic, political, scientific and mental layers. In the framework of Resistance, the multiple ways and strategies that manipulate and rearrange the human body and the tension that emerges within the infinite possibilities and borders of the body as a field of information, control and performance are explored under a range of diverse definitions and perceptions such as « material body, » « social body, » « body under surveillance, » « disciplined body, » « body at work, » « speaking body, » « the lived body » and « the sexual body. »
Musée de Bibracte, Centre Archéologique Européen * 16 March – 11 November 2013
Past (Video Still), 2012, © Ali Kazma
At Bibracte, Ali Kazma took time to focus on archaeologists and what they do. The video installation « Past » coproduced by the Jeu de Paume, recreates the sequence of motions of archaeological research at a rhythm and a distance that reveal their poetry and beauty, a trademark of this filmmaker – making the search for the past a reality.
In « Studio Ceramist », the lens focuses on the slow and precise gestures of a contemporary potter who is moulding clay at the rhythm of her wheel.
Past and present come face to face in these two videos that are projected on opposite walls.
Centre Photographique d’Ile-de-France, Pontault-Combault * 13 April – 30 June 2013
Quel travail?! Manières de faire, manière de voir
Automobile Factory (Video Still), 2012, © Ali Kazma
Festival Normandie Impressioniste, l’Abbaye de Jumièges * 27 April – 31 October 2013
L’exposition L’Eau et les Rêves propose une incursion dans l’univers photographique de grands contemporains. Avec l’eau – signature de l’impressionnisme – pour fil conducteur, L’Eau et les Rêves renoue avec les thèmes chers aux Impressionnistes : la lumière, le passage, le fluide, le reflet, la matière, l’intime…
Ali Kazma, vidéaste, montre ici l’autre face de l’univers qui est le sien : photographies de paysages solitaires, immenses : la mer et le ciel avec à peine une trace humaine. La matière « eau » traitée par Kazma rejoint une réflexion de Bachelard : » La matière se laisse valoriser en deux sens : dans le sens de l’approfondissement et dans le sens de l’essor. Dans le sens de l’approfondissement, elle apparaît comme insondable, comme un mystère. Dans le sens de l’essor, elle apparaît comme une force inépuisable, comme un miracle. » Le « regard pensif » qu’Ali Kazma porte sur le monde nous propose à la fois le mystère et le miracle.
