Stéphanie Roland, BE.
Serpentine Night
Video installation
Exhibition : “Breaths of the Earth” ”
From October 24th to December 13th
Tuesday to Sunday, 9am to 6pm
Centre de la Vieille Charité
Marseille
Credits
A CHRONIQUES CRÉATIONS platform project.
Co-produced by Quai des Savoirs-Toulouse Métropole and CHRONIQUES – Regional Center for Creation in Digital Environments – PACA Region, as part of the Biennale des Imaginaires Numériques.
With support from the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, Wallonia-Brussels International, the Wallonia-Brussels Center in Paris, Hyperobjects Visual Arts & Films, Caramel Beurré Salé, and Géosciences Environnement Toulouse.
“Serpentine Night” is a video installation that explores California’s system of geological faults. This mosaic paints a portrait of the concept of a fault line between reality and fiction, the real world and the virtual world, geography and emotions. Here, invisible terrestrial phenomena will be examined, as well as very human fault lines—the tremors within societies. By giving a voice to the earth, it is possible to move beyond dominant anthropocentric narratives; listening to non-human entities becomes a way to heal our extractivist relationship with territories. To resist is to imagine other ontologies with a stronger connection between inhabitants and their territories, to speculate that they can cross the fault line, and to build and create within the fissure.
Stéphanie Roland
Stéphanie Roland is a belgian / micronesian visual artist and filmmaker.
Working between documentary and the imaginary, Roland makes films and installations exploring invisible structures, hyperobjects and deep time; from ecological and political to the geologic and cosmic.
After graduating from La Cambre and following Hito Steyerl’s class in UDK Berlin, she completed post-graduates studies at Fresnoy – Studio National. Her work is regularly shown at international level, her projects have been included in exhibitions from major institutions among these Louvre Museum, Benaki Museum, Botanique, Kampala International Art Biennale, Bozar and Wiels. Breda Photo, Belfast Photo festival, Manifesto, Encontros da Imagem, BIP Liège, MOPLA and Unseen are amongst the festivals dedicated to photography in which she took part.
In 2017, she was selected in the group exhibition of the Antarctica Pavilion for the 57th Venice Biennale.
Her films have been screened in international festivals such as Visions du Réel, FID Marseille, ZINEBI, FEST New Directors / New Films, Rencontres Internationales Paris / Berlin, among others. Her second short film, Podesta Island, had its world premiere at FID Marseille, where it wons the Alice Guy Prize. The empty sphere won the TËNK Award at Visions du Réel 2022.
Filmography
– Deception Island, 2017
– Podesta Island, 2021
– The empty sphere, 2022
