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Raphaël Grisey, artist presentation
12th November 2007, 7. p.m.


Raphaël Grisey has been a visiting artist supported by the Budapest Gallery exchange program and participated in the show !REVOLUTION? in the Kunsthalle, Budapest. The exhibited work consists of an 18-part photo series and a video that explores the publicly manifesting forms of remembering: it looks in an urban environment for traces of the historical events of politically leftwing resistance, of revolutions and revolutionary attempts and their main participants. The photo series reflects primarily on the sites of the activities of Rosa Luxembourg and her fellow fighters in Berlin, while the video investigates the whereabouts of a Lenin statue that was moved from its location in the wake of the German change.

Beside his Berlin projects and the book documenting them, Raphaël Grisey will discuss more of his works, including the video Trappes, ville nouvelle (Trappes , new city, 2002) that reflects on the utopian urban developments of the 60s in France.
He will introduce Etre chez soi avant d'etre chez soi (to be at home before being at home) realised in a suburb of Paris between 2002 and 2004, as well as two projects made together with Florence Lazar - Red Star and Prvi deo were both shot in Belgrade and Vukovar in 2005 and 2006 - about the post-war situation.
Finally he will touch upon the ongoing project Cooperative (2007) being realised in Mali and France. The film deals with the current situation of an agricultural cooperative founded in 1976 in Mali by a group of African workers from France who decided to return to their native land. It raises the question of the heritage of a utopia operating in post-colonialist times as well as of the issues of more recent economic migration.

Raphaël Grisey was born in Paris in 1978.
He lives and works in Paris and Berlin.