Stéphanie Roland
Le cercle vide - Film - 18min - 2021
présenté dans le cadre de l'exposition Panorama 23
Film
Nothing really survives here. The base is so deep that no light ever penetrates it. A glacial space, dark and empty. Very few boats pass there, we do not know when the falls will come.
This experimental documentary follows the fall of a spatial object towards a mysterious point at the heart of the earth. How do you make the portrait of a place without traces or markers? This journey in which the codes of science fiction have been reversed attempts to approach a point that is inaccessible in terms both of its geography and its representation. For this project, Stéphanie Roland created a camera that combines the technologies for capturing images in space and in water, using waves. These technologies interest her in the sense that they can be new tools for exploring strata of the real that, even if we know they exist, elude our perception. To observe the world such as it does not appear to us, and to invent the possibility of rediscovering it.
Stéphanie Roland
Stéphanie Roland is a Belgian-Micronesian visual artist based in Brussels who regularly exhibits her work internationally. Her projects have been presented in major institutions such as the Louvre, the Benaki Museum, Bozar, MIT, Le Botanique, MOPLA and Wiels, and at the Kampala International Biennale of Art. In 2017 she took part in the group show at the Antarctica Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale, where she presented her film Deception Island in world première. Her films have been selected for international festivals including the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Venice and FID Marseille.
