Jésus Baptista
Treze de maio - Film - 20min - 2023
présenté dans le cadre de l'exposition Panorama 25
Film
My family immigrated to France illegally - in Portugal they call this the Salto - in the 1960s. That event conditions who I am today. This part of our history has remained hazy, and was long kept silent. Heres: the heir. We inherit what comes back to us, but also what we do not yet possess, what we are deprived of. Deprived of this history, I set off in my family's footsteps, thus writing myself into its history by living out memories at various key phases of its journey. Events have made me the heir to the family home where my grandmother remained alone until the end. My odyssey back in time and space marks my role as an intermediary ; I taking history on board by being the link with the past.
Jésus Baptista
Born in Montfermeil in 1992, Jésus Baptista lives and works in Paris. He graduated in June 2016 from the Haute École des Arts du Rhin. He subsequently developed his veejaying practice as well as the video and light projection techniques that are now the main components of his work. Since then, he has designed immersive installations that have been exhibited at the Ososphère festival in Strasbourg, the Constellations international festival in Metz, the SAT (Technological Arts Society) in Montreal, the House of Electronic Arts, Basel, the Athens Digital Arts Festival, the Château de Beaugency digital arts centre and the Sélestat biennale of contemporary art.
