Coal powered T.V 1&2
Artist:
Jessi Reaves
Date of creation:
2023
Domain:
Video installation
Medium:
Mixed media
Materials:
Metal, Cardboard, Acrylic paint, Adhesive tape, Monitors, Cabling, Fringed curtains
Dimensions:
Video 9 minutes 44 seconds
Collection:
Lafayette Anticipations - Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin
Date of acquisition:
2024
Jessi Reaves, Coal powered T.V 1&2, Video installation, 2023, Collection Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin © Martin Argyroglo
The video installation Coal powered T.V 1&2 consists of two screens, a fringed curtain, and the projection of the video Reflect as one. The work is inspired by a personal experience during a night flight on which the artist discovered The Women (2008) – a remake of George Cukor’s 1939 film – which rekindled childhood memories linked to passive television viewing. The main character in the video Reflect as one is her niece, perceived as her double. The familiar voices of the actresses in The Women have been cut up and recomposed to produce the effect of a film playing in the background. In a strategic ploy, Reaves repurposes a screen as a sculpture. The bulkiness of the monitor, like the other works in the space, deliberately aims to divert attention away from the video in order to explore the tension created by the viewer’s limited attention span – particularly in the context of the exhibition – and the contrast, dear to the artist, between the two types of media, contrasting the ephemeral nature of video with the materiality of sculpture.
Text written by Alessia Damioli as part of the partnership between the École du Louvre and Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin.
Text written by Alessia Damioli as part of the partnership between the École du Louvre and Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin.
Exhibitions
Reflect as one
Crèvecœur, Paris (France)
from 25 Apr to 17 Jul 2024
Crèvecœur, Paris (France)
from 25 Apr to 17 Jul 2024
Above the cold
San Carlo Cremona , Cremona (Italie)
from 06 Oct to 31 Dec 2023
San Carlo Cremona , Cremona (Italie)
from 06 Oct to 31 Dec 2023
Jessi Reaves
Born in 1986 in Portland, Oregon
Le travail sculptural de Jessi Reaves aborde le mobilier à la fois comme matériau et comme sujet en brisant la frontière entre art et design, entre fonctionnalité et esthétique. Des objets du design occidental deviennent ainsi des sculptures grâce à une succession des gestes empruntant autant à la rigueur qu’au jeu, qui les esthétisent et les érotisent, tout en révélant le sentiment de possibilité latent. Les œuvres de Reaves bouleversent les propriétés ou les caractéristiques des meubles avec lesquels nous partageons notre intimité, interrogeant la pensée et les catégorisations binaires encore largement répandues aujourd’hui.
Née en 1986 à Portland, Oregon (États-Unis), Jessi Reaves a été diplômée de la Rhode Island School of Design de Providence en 2009. Elle vit et travaille à New York.
Née en 1986 à Portland, Oregon (États-Unis), Jessi Reaves a été diplômée de la Rhode Island School of Design de Providence en 2009. Elle vit et travaille à New York.
