Pauline Curnier Jardin — Films

"Ami" - 2009 confronts spectators with their own dirty minds and desires, but also reedifies these emotions as humorous and valid in the context of a highly regarded history of art and the colonial artefact. In the work, Pauline Curnier Jardin compiles and reframes the images as an animation with ghostly piano music, a wordless porn film, featuring tastefully ornamented protagonists and un-protagonists, stars beheld and admired by the bourgeoisie alongside the accidentally-general public. Sticky, awkward laughter as horses almost licking testicles loom towards the screen, and small, sometimes incidental, genital details become the central focal point of the camera. mapping a sexually rampant tale. Antiquity quickly turns into a harem, a male whorehouse, an all-female brothel, a collection inanimate(d) figures starved of sexual satisfaction " Catriona Shaw in «The other one is me» - 2010 (tekst: vimeo Pauline Curnier Jardin)

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