Soleil Blanc offers visitors an emotional and reflective experience featuring a flow of images, sound and light.
Housed in a wooden barracks, the installation features a military operating table on which a staff map from 1918 is animated: as small metal objects are moved around, the sound and visual environment changes, adapting to the site and its history. The sounds of nature and bombs mingle with instrumental sounds, creating an atmosphere that is both realistic and dreamlike. Facing the barracks, animated archive images recomposed by visual artist David Coste are projected onto three wooden panels.
Reworked by the artist, the soldiers' portraits, originally intended for propaganda purposes, reveal the violence of an unprecedented conflict: the original cheerful, pastoral backgrounds now give way to bomb-ravaged landscapes.
Production
éOle
Coproduction
Bel Ordinaire - espace d'art contemporain Pau Pyrénées, Orchestre de Pau Pays de Béarn, Musée de la Grande Guerre de Meaux and Odyssud-Blagnac, scène conventionnée
Supported by
Mission Centenaire 14-18 and the French Ministry of Defense - Direction de la mémoire et des archives.
Pierre Jodlowski
sound artist
Pierre Jodlowski is developing his work in France and abroad in the field of contemporary music. His music, often marked by great density, lies at the crossroads of acoustic and electric sound, and is characterized by its dramaturgical and political roots. He performs in most venues dedicated to contemporary music, as well as in parallel circuits: dance, theater, visual arts, electronic music. He is also founder and associate artistic director of studio éOle - in residence at Odyssud Blagnac since 1998 - and of the Novelum festival in Toulouse and its region (from 1998 to 2014). "Each project is an opportunity to concretize a mental space in which there are narrative elements, sensations, spaces, energies, colors...".
La Criée - National Theater of Marseille
30, quai de Rive Neuve13007
Marseille
RATES
Free admission
Pierre Jodlowski
concept, sound design, programming
David Coste
video production
François Donato
artistic and technical collaboration
Atelier La Fiancée du Pirate - Toulouse
set design
Pierre Grinbaum
object production
WORKS OF
Pierre Jodlowski
Soleil Blanc