Presentation of two videos foreshadowing the Women at work. Under construction exhibition. scheduled for January 2022.
Rue des Jacobins
72100 Le Mans
FRANCE
Between 1970 and 1980, Lili Dujourie used video as a medium. She is experimenting with various methods of direct recording, without cuts, of scenes where she exhibits herself at length in simple framing. If the presence of this slowly moving body refers to certain choreographic or performative practices, it is more of a tradition of a cinema of real-time capture to which the whole belongs. Like video surveillance in a painter's studio, bodies fleetingly crystallize in romantic pictorial compositions, even in certain icons of modernity.
Lili Reynaud-Dewar is attached to the notion of cultural identity. She creates close links between her position as an artist and that of mythical figures, forging relationships with them on the formal, fictional and symbolic plans. The video What a pity you’re an architect, sir. You’d make a sensational partner (After Josephine Baker), initiates a form that will become recurrent in her work, that of filmed dance performance. She appears alone, naked and painted black, surrounded by objects. She moves through the space of her studio, reinterpreting and imitating the gestures of Joséphine Baker, an iconic and committed black woman from the beginning of the 20th century.