This is the time of sweet sweet change for us all
CALM - Centre d'Art La Meute•Sep 14, 2024 — Nov 03, 2024
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A proposal and text by Oriane Emery & Jean-Rodolphe Petter
CALM – Centre d’Art La Meute invites you to discover the first exhibition of its 2024-2025 cultural season. The title of the exhibition refers to the film “Born in Flames”, directed by Lizzie Borden (Detroit, Michigan, USA) in 1983.
The film had a profound effect on us, so we decided to design and build an exhibition around its narrative and environment. It depicts a clandestine women’s army developing in a dystopian New York. As social unrest shakes the streets, brigades of women on bicycles roam the grim urban landscape, fending off rapists in particular. But much of the dramatic tension stems from the efforts of women – racialized and white, queer and heterosexual, working-class and elite – to understand each other and work together.
Considered by cinema to be in the science fiction genre at the time of its release, its discourse is utterly contemporary and real forty...More
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This is the time of sweet sweet change for us all
CALM - Centre d'Art La Meute•Sep 14, 2024 — Nov 03, 2024
Press Release
A proposal and text by Oriane Emery & Jean-Rodolphe Petter
CALM – Centre d’Art La Meute invites you to discover the first exhibition of its 2024-2025 cultural season. The title of the exhibition refers to the film “Born in Flames”, directed by Lizzie Borden (Detroit, Michigan, USA) in 1983.
The film had a profound effect on us, so we decided to design and build an exhibition around its narrative and environment. It depicts a clandestine women’s army developing in a dystopian New York. As social unrest shakes the streets, brigades of women on bicycles roam the grim urban landscape, fending off rapists in particular. But much of the dramatic tension stems from the efforts of women – racialized and white, queer and heterosexual, working-class and elite – to understand each other and work together.
Considered by cinema to be in the science fiction genre at the time of its release, its discourse is utterly contemporary and real forty...More
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