The Angst Hotel in Bordighera dates back to 1886. A ruin from another century, it bears a dark aura, with the name of its Swiss founder proudly inscribed on its pediment: Angst, which means fear in German and whose typography remains slightly visible. Agathe Wiesner, who has managed to squeeze her way into the den of the Hotel Angst, invites us to take a special stroll through this place, as if collected, with a small-format projection, between the postcard and the family photo. The tripod used in the installation is also the one used to film the locations, a relic of the shooting. Agathe Wiesner considers this type of monstration to be very representative of her generation, which has the possibility via the internet to watch a film by Charlie Chaplin as a live discussion by an ordinary internet user on the same medium.

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Courtesy Agathe Wiesner, vidéo, 1’40″, 2016