Screening: Eric Baudelaire
2015. 11. 20. (금) 17:00
Art Hall(B1)
Screening: Eric Baudelaire
“When I dropped an envelope in a mailbox in Paris two years ago, I fully expected that a letter addressed to Maxim Gvinjia, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sukhumi, Republic of Abkhazia, would come straight back to my studio with the notice ‘destination unknown.’ But to my surprise, ten weeks later, I got a call from Max telling me he had received my letter, but could not reply on paper since the post office in Abkhazia cannot handle international mail.” –Eric Baudelaire
Art Sonje Center presents a screening of Eric Baudelaire’s latest film, Letters to Max, and a conversation with the artist. He is an artist and filmmaker based in Paris, and Maxim “Max” Gvinjia is a diplomat and former minister of foreign affairs in Abkhazia, which is an independent state seceded from Georgia during a civil war in the early 1990s. The correspondence between the two men for 74 days is the main narrative of the film. Both Eric’s letters and Max’s answers are narrated by Max, while the accompanying images show the life of Abkhazia. Max offers interesting and thoughtful responses to Eric’s open-ended questions such as “What does a diplomat for a country that isn’t recognized do when he comes to the office in the morning?” and “Are we making a documentary or a fiction?”
About the Artist
Eric Baudelaire
Eric Baudelaire is a visual artist and filmmaker. His films Letters to Max (2014), The Ugly One (2013) and The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi, and 27 Years Without Images (2011) were shown at the FIDMarseille, Locarno, Toronto, New York, and Rotterdam film festivals. His research-based practice also unfolds as installations incorporating photography, printmaking, performance, publications, and screenings. Recent solo exhibitions were held at the Fridericianum in Kassel, Berkeley Art Museum, Kadist Art Foundation in San Francisco, Bétonsalon in Paris, the Bergen Kunsthall, the Beirut Art Center, Gasworks in London, La Synagogue de Delme in France, and The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. He has participated in Sharjah Biennial 12, Seoul Mediacity Biennial, the Yokohama Triennial, the Taipei Biennial, Berlin Documentary Forum 2, La Triennale in Paris, and the Baltic Triennial. His films and installations are in the collections of the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, the MACBA in Barcelona, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Museum of Modern Art and The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
Art Sonje Center
Samuso
Free