two-channel video, 16min10, 2021
Composed of archives, personal or borrowed from social networks, Cercate Ortensia is an expression of disarray as well as a big breath. A plethora of memory fragments collide from humans walking on fre to old statues with vacant eyes, between hydrangeas, tired fathers and red skies.
The film draws inspiration from La Libellula (Panegirico della libertà), a "political, feminist as well as poetic poem" by Amelia Rosselli (1930-1996).
"The video work Cercate Ortensia is an oration on disappearance, loss and disaster, but also an ode to resistance and freedom. In a powerfully evocative montage, Pauline Julier uses material from archives both personal and borrowed to construct a layered, critical reflection on our fileds of perception and relationship with the environement.Cercate Ortensia is shot through with the precariousness and disruption brought about by the pandemic situation. In this tale, spatial and temporal disorientation, breath, air, fire and embers become philosophical tools for multiplying perspectives. Pauline Julier envelops us in a narrative whose lyricism and tone shift as the come into contact with the elements surrounding them, like the hydrangeas". Anne-Julie Raccoursier (Swiss Federal Art Commission)
Shows
'Pauline Julier – A Single Universe', Aargauer Kunsthaus, 2024
Swiss Art Awards 2021 ( LAUREATE💥)
Hors Pistes, Centre Pompidou Paris
ICA Milano (Trovate Ortensia curated by Il Colorificio)
A film by Pauline Julier/ Sound - Xavier Lavorel / Post-production - Raphaël Frauenfelder // Supported by Istituto Svizzero di Roma and Fonds Cantonal d’Art Contemporain, DCS, Geneva