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Edition 2021

© Graphisme Claude Valenti / Fond visuel Emmanuelle Nègre, 2021
© Graphisme Claude Valenti / Fond visuel Emmanuelle Nègre, 2021

2021 Edition

This new edition is sponsored by Muriel Mayette-Holtz. Director of the Théâtre de Nice, the first woman to have directed the Villa Medici in Rome, an actress and luminous director. 

 

« A lion in my room », the title of the 2021 edition of the OVNi festival announces all the artistic energy that unfolds in hotel rooms, and beyond, during the few days of the Objectif Vidéo Nice festival, at the end of November and beginning of December. 

 

After opening at Pôle 109 on 19 November with the Artifices festival, OVNi begins its journey at the Libération and continues to the port on 20 November.

 

Numerous proposals will take place during the festival until the OVNi weekend in the hotels.

 

From 3 to 5 December 2021, OVNi will bring together 5 hotels in Nice for an artistic proposal in their premises.

 

The Windsor Hotel invites foreign cultural institutes in collaboration with the FICEP as well as collections, while emerging artists from the South region are mainly installed at the West End Hotel and the Splendid Hotel. At the Malmaison, a suite of « dédales » is presented from room to room and « Alter Ego » invades the Villa Rivoli.   

 

A real discovery of video art and Nice’s heritage! 

©Michael Rougier/The LIFE Picture Collection
©Michael Rougier/The LIFE Picture Collection

A Lion in my room

When the title ‘a lion in my room’ dawned as the theme for the 2020 edition of OVNi festival, no one could have expected the catastrophe that Covid-19 would caused. These words come from Allen Ginsberg’s poem : « The lion for real ». In this poem, the narrator gets back home and finds a lion in his living room. He tries to escape from it but fails. No one believes him when he describes his misadventure. This seems to reflect the period we are living in. Scientists, whistleblowers, artists had already warned us about our own lions. Nonetheless, we often continue to live as if those lions do not exist. Ever since, « a lion in my room » has taken on a broader meaning. The reality of the pandemic imposes itself upon us. Overnight, here we are, all of us confined, locked in, facing ourselves and the situation. OVNi 2020 is mirroring our own lions, our own personal and collective challenges, our own fights and interrogations. To quote Albert Camus, we could say that our era is forbidding us to become disengaged from it. The artist « is embarked on the difficult time of his era».

 

Bérangère Armand – curator