New works specially conceived for the exhibition will be shown, including Bonjour (2015), a spectacular performance that takes place on a full-scale set of a picturesque village square in France and that shows a brief, fleeting encounter of a man and a woman.

Scenes from Western Culture (2015), another new work on show, comprises a set of idyllic Watteau inspired cinematic paintings : a speed boat scene on a Swiss lake, a couple making love in cozy minimal interiors, an afternoon swim, the burning of a forest cabin, upper class children playing in a Munich garden, etc. This large video installation celebrates and laments Western desires.

New works specially conceived for the exhibition will be shown, including Bonjour (2015), a spectacular performance that takes place on a full-scale set of a picturesque village square in France and that shows a brief, fleeting encounter of a man and a woman. Scenes from Western Culture (2015), another new work on show, comprises a set of idyllic Watteau inspired cinematic paintings : a speed boat scene on a Swiss lake, a couple making love in cozy minimal interiors, an afternoon swim, the burning of a forest cabin, upper class children playing in a Munich garden, etc. This large video installation celebrates and laments Western desires.

Experimenting the mechanisms of theatre and the dramatic impulses of tragedy, Ragnar Kjartansson succeeds in bringing emotions out of melodramatic actions and in revealing the reality on which relies every actor’s or singer’s interpretation. — Julien Fronsacq

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