ANOUK CHAMBAZ (SHE)

NAME: ANOUK CHAMBAZ
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PROFESSION: VIDEO ARTIST
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LOCATION: VENICE
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WEBSITE:
ANOUK.CHAMBAZ.COM/

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VIDEO ARTIST:
Anouk Chambaz is a IUAV VIDEO ARTIST based in Venice.

TITLE: marica, VIDEO: Anouk Chambaz, DATE: 04.09.2022

Marica
2022, video, 10’.
With Donatella Di Cola.
Director of photography Saskia Scorselo.
Set design Edoardo Buttinelli.
Assistant to the artist Vittoria Agrati.
Editing Giulia Cosma.
Sound Lorenzo Minozzi.
Production Rasoir Bouée (CH).

In collaboration with Mattatoio - Azienda Speciale Palaexpo (IT).
Finalist Premio Cramum, Premio Combat e Premio Malamegi Lab.
“Marica” is a portrait of a Donatella di Cola, a butterfly breeder. She is portrayed
as Marica, a pre-roman goddess who reigned over the animal world.
It is a documentary and poetic work.
Donatella has a unique story. She was working as a beekeeper in Paliano,
when she had to face an unexpected enemy. A local butterfly invaded the bees’ habitat, ate their honey and destroyed their larvae.
Donatella could have fought this parasite, but instead she decided to start breeding butterflies.
I was struck by her story, and her capacity for metamorphosing a failure into an opportunity.

There is a strong bond between Donatella and butterflies: they are cared for by her with great respect and with a special attention to saving the species from extinction.
Yet eggs hatch, caterpillars shed thir skin, pupae metamor- phose only when she decides to grow them in her laboratory, like a modern Frankenstein.
It is that special relationship that I decided to portray.
During the shoot I used a 24 mm macro Laowa lens to shoot live butterflies,
which allows to get very close to the subject to the point that butterflies start becoming individuals.

TITLE: the sentinels VIDEO: Anouk Chambaz, DATE: 10.09.2021

The Sentinels
2022, video installation projected on a 4x4 cloth, fan, 07’00, in loop.
Director of photography Saskia Scorselo.
Assistant to the artists Margherita Sozio.
Made with the support of Fondazione smART, Rome, IT.
The Sentinels consists of eleven portraits of children and adolescents looking at the camera in a state of stillness.
The children become sentinels placed at the threshold of something mysterious.
Guardians of our future, keepers of our past, they stare straight into the present as if they were the holders of an unspeakable secret.
The film is projected onto a semi-transparent sheet, hung from the ceiling and moved by the wind produced by a fan. The cloth inflates and deflates, and the faces thus grow larger and smaller depending on the amount of air passing behind the cloth.

The work is an encounter between the viewer and these almost mythological and monstrous figures: a mute dialogue between their faces and the visitors’ gaze.
I think of Levinas’ epiphany of the face, of the defenseless vulnerability of the face of the Other that « puts me in question »; I think of the poem «Da ich ein Knabe war» by Hölderlin.

TEXTS, PHOTOS + PROJECTS CREDITS :
anoukchambaz.com/

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