Newsletter n°2 2020
Salon Camera Camera 2020
Final Week End of OVNi
Festival in Nice
From 4th - 6th of December
In addition to OVNi à l'Hôtel and OVNi en Ville, we are thrilled to present the Contemporary Video Art Salon Camera Camera, alongside our sponsor for this year, Muriel Mayette-Holtz. Video artists and gallery owners have been invited to present their work in the unique rooms of the Windsor hotel in Nice through site specific installations -- curating a novel format for the presentation and viewing of film as art.
Photo : Vidéo "Sin Tiempo" by Giovanni Ozzola from Galleria Continua
A team of 8 international curators
Constituted by Florent To Lay (Paris)
The team includes Banyi Huang (New York and Beijing), Vanina Murolo (Napoli and Paris), Livia Parmantier (Paris), Alexa Wilkie (Paris and London), Maxime Gicquel (Paris), Antoine Idier (Paris), Julián Sánchez-González (New York and Bogotá).
Photo : Room by Jennifer Douzenel - Catherine Issert Gallery
An exploratory salon
The diverse artworks and seperate rooms in the Windsor hotel allow the viewer to alternate between "dark rooms" wherein immersive video installations plunge the viewer into the artists world, and "bright rooms" which are conducive to dialogue pertaining to the surrounding video and plastic art.
Alongside open applications from galleries, the team of curators will explore the medium of video as art by putting the work of emerging artists in dialogue with the older generation. Halfway between an art fair and a temporary art center, artists and their associated galleries are invited to create site specific projects within each of the rooms of the Windsor hotel through a set format of one artist/gallery couple per room.
The (hotel)room is a place of transit, a living space related to intimacy, domesticity, desire, lust, solitude, dream, transmission, desorientation. What is a room after all? How about a hotel room? It is first an indoor space, physical of course but also a mental space. What does it mean when someone greets another one in a room? Is the room the ultimate space where we feel home? What is an artist's room?
Photo : Room by Alice Guittard - Eva Vautier Gallery
An independent selection committee
The committee is comprised of Lélia Decourt (curator), Laurent Fiévet (artist), Marie Gayet (curator), Emma Picard (artist ArtKaravane by CCulte!), Françoise et Jean-
Photo : David Raffini & Florian Pugnaire - Gallery Ceysson et Benetière
Jury and awards for the salon
OVNi organizes an annual award ceremony for the Salon Camera Camera. The "OVNi Prize" is supported by the "Centre de Haute Énergie" and will be award to the best video artist. The "Camera Camera Prize", supported by the Caisse d'Epargne, is presented to the best room project. A prize will also be awarded to the jury's favorite, and this prize is supported by the Villa Borghese Hotel in Greoux les Bains.
The Jury's presidency will be held by Yann Beauvais (Professor of Art & Video at École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris Cergy - ENSAPC, experimental video artist, and art critic). At his side, François Bordry (President of Lyon Biennale) Martine Bordry (Collector), Cécile
Photo : 1. Room of Eric Michel - Mickaël Petronko Gallery / 2. Brice Dellsperger - Air de Paris
Galleries, Artists, Patrons
To participate, feel free to reach out the festival
and download the aplication form here.
Photos of the Salon
Find here a selection of photos from past editions of the salon