Les Indes Galantes Rameau Les Sauvages : Clément Cogitore, Biennale Berlin 2022 - Hamburger Bahnof

Clément Cogitore lives and works in Paris, FR, and Berlin, DE
Clément Cogitore’s two featured film works initially seem to be, quite literally, worlds apart. In Lascaux (2017), the artist overlays images of butterflies onto found 16-mm film footage from the 1980s documenting the Paleolithic paintings found in the eponymous cave; projected at medium scale, the work is silent, lyrical, even poetic. LES INDES GALANTES [The Amorous Indies, 2017] offers a different kind of trip: in this video, a few dozen krump dancers of various races and genders battle each other on a sparsely lit stage to a tune set by Jean-Philippe Rameau, whose 1735 opera, which brought performers of African descent to the French national stage for the first time, gives the piece its title.
Version en N&B par Poésie is not dead de la vidéo originale.