You Ask Me To Not Give Up Up Up
Abbatiale Bellelay•Jun 21, 2025 — Aug 31, 2025
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Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz have worked together as a team since 2007. Their work combines video, installation and research so as to offer alternative narratives to straight mind. They regularly work with performing artists and musicians.
In the monumental Baroque space of the Bellelay abbey church they are presenting the installation You Ask Me To Not Give Up Up Up, a roller coaster made of wood and PVC. Its hundred-meter-long circular path weaves between the church’s columns, soars over the alter, gently slopes to a height of eight meters approaching the balconies and then drops vertiginously, leaning to one side as it rounds a corner and slipping through a narrow doorway. Its graceful curves replicate the abbey’s arches. Its spectacular dimensions and movements evoke aspects of the Baroque period.
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You Ask Me To Not Give Up Up Up
Abbatiale Bellelay•Jun 21, 2025 — Aug 31, 2025
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Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz have worked together as a team since 2007. Their work combines video, installation and research so as to offer alternative narratives to straight mind. They regularly work with performing artists and musicians.
In the monumental Baroque space of the Bellelay abbey church they are presenting the installation You Ask Me To Not Give Up Up Up, a roller coaster made of wood and PVC. Its hundred-meter-long circular path weaves between the church’s columns, soars over the alter, gently slopes to a height of eight meters approaching the balconies and then drops vertiginously, leaning to one side as it rounds a corner and slipping through a narrow doorway. Its graceful curves replicate the abbey’s arches. Its spectacular dimensions and movements evoke aspects of the Baroque period.
The figure of a roller coaster is often employed to describe dramatic moments in our lives that produce strong contradictory emotions. At a time when a...More
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