Laurent Fiévet, Tuesday, 2016, 232 min, video loop, video still
ANALIX FOREVER is thrilled to announce Laurent Fiévet's participation at LOOP Barcelona 2020 Online Fair, with his masterpiece Tuesday after Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.
Tuesday brings, through superimposition effects, a set of unpublished dialogues between two excerpts from the same film fragment of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. It is composed of 237 variations in reference to the room number that catches the attention of Dany (Dany Lloyd), the son of Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson), and precipitate the new appear of the murdered twins into the film.
With variable durations ranging from a few seconds to several minutes, each of the 237 fragments is based on an ever-changing setting of two confronted excerpts. The visual and sonic articulation, renewed for nearly four hours as the film unfolds, constitutes Tuesday's main aesthetic concept.
The hammering sound of Jack's typewriter rhythmically and musically chant the variations. Although never visible, the famous typescript – the proverb « All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy » typed over and over – imposes its structural model on Tuesday’s montage through the reiteration of the same textual content. The 237 variations follow one another like a series of superimposed sheets revealed by transparency, assimilating Tuesday to the allegory of a work in progress, constantly struggling with the torments of creation.
Laurent Fiévet lives and works in Paris. With a doctorate in film studies (Université Paris III), he creates films and installations using existing images, mainly taken from the film classics, which he confronts with each other, reworks rhythmically and redeploys in the exhibition space. Organized in thematic series, Laurent Fiévet’s artworks propose different types of reflections on image and its modes of perception. Fundamentally ambivalent and lending themselves to various registers of interpretation, Laurent Fiévet’s series include many elements of historical, sociological and political criticism which, while shifting our gaze on daily life, question the dysfunctions of our individual and collective memory.
Laurent Fiévet's artworks have been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions, both in France and abroad, notably in Paris at the Grand Palais (2017), at the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki (2004), at the Picasso Museums in Paris (2014) and Barcelona (2015), at the Kunsthalle in Bremen (2015) and Munster (2016), at the Rudolfinum Gallery in Prague (2016), among others. Laurent Fiévet also regularly collaborates on theatrical and musical shows.
