Newsletter n°3 – 2020

The OVNi festival is being build up... 

Opening of the festival at the 109, center of contemporary cultures

On the 20th of November at 6.30 p.m  the festival starts with three exhibitions that enhance the video : 'Saga' at la Station, 'Implano de Arisana' inside La Grande Halle and another one, currently in progress at the Forum d'Urbanisme et d'Architecture de la vile de Nice.

'Saga'

Saga 'is a television-type series produced on the model of the 'cadavre exquis': each episode is directed by a different guest artist who can read the scripts of the previous episodes but cannot view the images. The means of production and filming locations change with each episode, only actors remain the same. Project by Rafaela Lopez, Baptiste Masson and David Perreard.

courtesy Halida Boughriet

Focus on 'La Grande Halle' - The 109 

The course of the Paillon river naturally leads to the northern district in Nice, the Ariane. Artist Halida Boughriet has been invited to live there to produce a work based on her encounter with this territory. She set up a protocol associating staging and documentary immersion, accompanied in her discovery of the places by local associations and by the eyes of six women.
Curating Mathilde Roman

A few 'rendezvous' from OVNi in the city

This year, OVNi unfolds along ̈Ligne 2 ̈ of the tramway and has varied its proposition by taking the public to new museums such as : the Musée d’Art Asiatique, the Musée d’Art Naïf but also into unusual spaces like the Roseland Abby and the Pays-Sage Fondation.

Vernissages of these exhibitions on the 21rst of November. 

courtesy Thom van Rijckevorsel

Focus on 'Le Musée international d'Art Naïf - Anatole Jakowsky'

Programmation capsule OVNi

Stranger than Paradise

Having borrowed the title of Jim Jarmush’s film : « Stranger Than Paradise », the exhibition invites you to a bitter sweet stroll through the dwelling place of the former perfumer François Coty, « Chateau Sainte Hélène, surrounded by a large park filled with the rarest essences. The artists Raffael Bader, Alexandre Capan, Elspeth Diederix, Anne Hujnen, Thom van Rijckevorsel, Irene Suosalo, Christian Viallard and Isabelle Wenzel are invited to enter into the resonance of this movement by showing video works that reenact those ideas. A strange beauty is released drawing a kind of a lost paradise, lovingly strange. 

Curating Bérangère Armand 

courtesy Miguel chevalier 

Focus on 'l'Abbaye de Roseland - Fondation Pays Sages​'

A numeric installation projected on the inside of  the Roseland Abbey's apse immerses the visitor into an experience through nature and culture. The installation is accompanied by an original electro-accoustic music by Michel Redolfi.  This interrogates the place of nature into our artificial era. The Abbey is the headquarters of the Pays Sages foundation which is dedicated to the protection of landscape and was created by Michel Pena a landscape gardener  who's also known for the creation of the "Paillon" in Nice.

OVNi continues on the 28th of November in the city center with many proposals from our partners.

Guillaume Dustan in "Enjoy, back to Ibiza", 2001

Focus on 'la Librairie Vigna'

Montre † lèvres

The bookstore specialized in queer cultures and feminism opens its doors to the festival for the presentation of a video by Guillaume Dustan: 'Montre † lèvres', which will be broadcast every day at 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. (Tuesday to Saturday, from November the 20th to December the 5th). The screening will be accompanied by a reading of texts by this writer, editor and videographer on Thursday the 26th of November at 6.30 p.m. and on Saturday the 28th of November at 4 p.m.

The festival closes the weekend of the 4th to the 6th of December with OVNi galleries and OVNi at the hotel.

 OVNi Festival: Odile Redolfi odile@ovni-festival.com 

 OVNi itinerary: Bérangère Armand berangere@ovni-festival.com