Etienne de France, A Journey That Wasn't. Super 16mm film and HD video transferred to HD video, 2005. Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery
The Te Whare Hēra Wellington International Artist Residency presents an exclusive screening by two French artists. Their cinematic works involve encounters between sublime terrains and speculative fictions.
The current Te Whare Hēra artist in residence Etienne de France shows
Tales of a Sea Cow ( 2012) - which takes its inspiration from actual scientific research to re-discover an extinct sea mammal off the coast of Greenland.
A Journey That Wasn’t (2005), by Pierre Huyghe - a renowned multimedia artist, noted for his reuses of film and media footage, stages an Antarctic voyage in search of an albino penguin. The penguin is said to live on an island recently made visible due to climatic changes responsible for the environments ice melting. Huyghe then re- creates the expedition as a theatrical light and sound show on an ice-skating rink in New York’s Central Park.
