Michèle Waquant

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What do old bears dream of? Trailer

Michèle Waquant was born in Quebec City in 1948. She lives and works in France, where she teaches photography at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Cergy. Through her video, photography, painting, drawing and writing, Michèle Waquant always expresses a devoted and patient gaze upon the events, places and gestures of everyday life. Her work has been exhibited in Canada and abroad. Among many such solo shows have been Médianes, produced by the Galerie de l’UQAM in 1999 and presented in France at the Galerie de l’École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Marseille, L’amoureux, organized by the Galerie Corinne Caminade in Paris in 2002, and L’observatoire, presented at the Centre d’art Passerelle in Brest in 2003. Michèle Waquant’s works can be found in numerous private and public collections. [Source: VOX, 2005]

Most Popular Michèle Waquant Trailers

Total trailers found: 9

What do old bears dream of? Trailer (1982)

27 December 1982

Meanderings through a city and associations between sequences of animals enclosed in zoos and their depiction in furniture and objects.

Le néflier Trailer (2014)

27 December 2014

A tree on the banks of the Seine. The title, in Morse code.

Their Hands Trailer (1987)

27 December 1987

A fantasy using hand movements, involuntary gestures, attitudes and habits. With the absence of words, these movements become choreographies.

Crucifer Trailer (1998)

27 December 1998

An urban sound landscape is transformed into techno music. The city moves from day to night. Drugstore crosses multiply and pulse according to their own rhythm.

Le portrait de Pauline Trailer (1984)

27 December 1984

Pauline has a daydream inspired by Manet's paintings. The point of view of painting, and the question of the movement.

212, rue du Faubourg St-Antoine Trailer (1989)

27 December 1989

This video suggests a dialogue between two buildings : on one side, the empty wall of 212, rue du Faubourg, and on the other, the view from a work room.

L'étang Trailer (1985)

27 December 1985

A walk within a place which possesses its own rhythm, in the heart of the city: the garden. A dream amongst the trees, children, birds and strollers.

Les bruits blancs Trailer (1990)

27 December 1990

The term "white noise" describes the technical application of a certain quality of background noise obtained by emitting constant energy to different sound frequencies.

Débâcle Trailer (1992)

27 December 1992

A torrent of words, of tenderness, of violence, of sense, and nonsense. Exasperation in speech as it butts up against things and repeats in a million ways its submission to nature and life.