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April 30 - June 12, 2022
Curated and scenographed by Emmanuelle Luciani.
“Uncanny Depths” is a visual and alter-historical wanderer at the crossroads of science fiction and fantasy. Since the end of the 18th century, there have been successive waves of artistic and literary movements touching on the irrational and the bizarre, embodied in turn in the avatars of decadentism, fin-de-siècle aesthetics, gothic novels, fantasy and science fiction. These movements, of extraordinary longevity since their birth, re-emerge at pivotal periods. The artists gathered here are heirs to this strange, nocturnal side of art.
The music was conceived by Emotion In Motion as a long, immersive 15-minute track. The idea was to take advantage of the architecture of the exhibition space at the Mamo in Le Corbusier's Cité Radieuse building. The sound resonate in the space and evoke the sensation of the aquatic and underwater world.
Bella’s Inferno curated by Emmanuelle Luciani and Bella Hunt Dc.
Bella’s Inferno is a chaotic fresco inspired by the Divine Comedy, the writings of Philip K. Dick and the visual universe of science fiction, from Blade Runner to Akira. The metal, ridged and neon imagery of the sculpted stage, a fusion of organ and engine by Bella Hunt & Dante Di Calce, is evocative of cyber-punk, the dystopian literary subgenre of SF that emerged in the 1980s.
A blow-by-blow narration, suggested by a hybrid text composed of excerpts from Dante and Galactic Pot-Healer, evokes a post-apocalyptic world where the technologies of vanished civilizations become sacred relics; between antique concrete obelisk-returners resounds Emotion in Motion’s engine symphony.
In a contemporary chaos, alternating brutal movements by boxers from Marseilles selected by Southway Studio and lascivious dances and songs by Régina Demina, build bridges between violence and grace, technology and the divine. In one performance, the whole synthesizes a shared imagination around the power of science fiction as a fantasized projection of the future and time, and a creator of contemporary myths.
11/2022 - 01/2023
Sainte Anne Gallery
Cur. Emmanuelle Luciani.
Artists : Bella Hunt & Ddc. Original music by Emotion In Motion.
Drive to Survive is a headlong rush to escape the solastalgia of a sclerotic world. The works presented here are echoes-fantasms of combustion engines, machines, sharp shapes, the synthetic, nocturnal light of big cities and, above all, the car, represented as an archaeological relic of a distant future. In an enraged jolt, the artists pay tribute to the futuristic utopias of the 20th century and to the popular imagination of speed, of which the car is the flamboyant avatar, but also provoke a salvific jolt, the only way out of a generalized and existential despondency.
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