Video Box - Carreau du temple (Paris)

From May 31 to July 1, 2018, come and discover the sporty and dynamic program of videos presented at the OVNi festival since 2015. According to Jules Rimet, it is necessary to “Work the body and awaken the mind at the same time”. Known for having founded the football club Red FC Saint Ouen, he is also renowned for the cultural policy he has put in place, in particular a book club accessible to athletes and their amateurs, since 1897. Today Videobox , in the cloakroom n°9 at the Carreau du Temple, replays this specific contextualization of culture and contemporary art, by making video art accessible to the public.

For this program, OVNi has selected six videos questioning the relationship between contemporary art, sport and the compartmentalization between these two cultural practices. Producer of forms, behavior, practice and images, sport and athletes inspire these six artists. Each carries out a plastic research centered on the body, the attitudes and the repetition and beauty of the gesture. The exploration of the world of sport is done here in a poetic mode, where the artists seem to have fun with the homonymy between performance and performativity.