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L'Image

L'Image

film/video
be
1987
43 min

L'Image poses, through a fantastical tale, a series of interrogations about the origin of the image and its  function. What is an image? A resemblance? An imitation? Or a  transformation? In the postmodern era the idea of "the image" has been lost in a semiotic quest. In this surrealistic fairy tale the protagonists Thérèsa and Codca (played by the Nysts) travel on an expedition to a legendary country where images  metamorphose, in order  to recapture and cleanse the idea of representation as the duplicator of reality. The Nysts' whimsical universe of images is the stage for a discursive inquiry into  contemporary culture, and the consumption of the images that inundate everyday life. – eai.org

 

(Image: Jacques Louis and Danièle Nyst. L'Image)

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