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- Titre
- Hermine Bourgadier | Ceci n'est pas un Casino
- Intervenant
- Bruno Flash
- Durée
- 5:49
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- Ceci n'est pas un casino
- Lieu
- Casino Luxembourg Forum d'Art Contemporain
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- Mission687
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- *1974 PARIS (FR)VIT ET TRAVAILLE À / LEBT UND ARBEITET IN / LIVES AND WORKS IN PARIS (FR)STREET FIGHTERS, 2005SÉRIE DE 10 PHOTOGRAPHIES / SERIE VON 10 FOTOGRAFIEN / SERIES OF 10 PHOTOGRAPHSTIRAGES NUMÉRIQUES / DIGITALFOTOS / DIGITAL PRINTS80 x 100 CM (ÉDITION UNIQUE / EINZIGE AUFLAGE / UNIQUE COPY)COURTESY L’ ARTISTE / DIE KÜNSTLERIN / THE ARTIST ; GALERIE SCHIRMAN & DE BEAUCÉ, PARIS LES TURFISTES, 2003SÉRIE DE 10 PHOTOGRAPHIES / SERIE VON 10 FOTOGRAFIEN / SERIES OF 10 PHOTOGRAPHSTIRAGES NUMÉRIQUES / DIGITALFOTOS / DIGITAL PRINTS40 x 50 CM (ÉDITION DE 3 / AUFLAGE VON 3 / EDITION OF 3)COURTESY L’ ARTISTE / DIE KÜNSTLERIN / THE ARTIST ; GALERIE SCHIRMAN & DE BEAUCÉ, PARIS ; PATRICK FALFUS, PARIS.................. Play—especially when competing or betting—provokes various feelings: excitement, pleasure, anxious anticipa-tion. All these feelings can be detected through body language. In certain cases, the emotion can attain an almost religious intensity and meditative silence—the stakes are high and en-tertainment takes second place to the single goal of winning at all costs.Hermine Bourgadier’s Street Fighters have tense expressions, eyes glued to the screen, bodies frozen in an alarm-ing, completely absorbed state of con-centration detached from everything. Nothing around them seems important, nothing can distract their attention. Contrary to the impression given by Bourgadier’s photographs, these young men are playing the famous game Street Fighter, which once took place in game halls where tournaments were held in order to determine the local champion. It was a question of honor: the matches were watched live by a large audience surrounding the play-ers. But with the rise of home consoles these publicly played video-arcade games have died out.Bourgadier has produced a portrait of a generation that turned to the virtual world to perform their rites of competi-tive struggle.Her series of Les tur?stes begins with the same observation: as soon as a bet is placed, emotions become interior-ized, and silence dominates the wait for the outcome—even more so than when playing for honor, because here the ?nancial stakes can be very high. Race fans do not need a casino or gambling hall, instead they gather in off-track betting rooms. The game is passive, the players freeze in their nerv-ous wait. Great tension can be read on the faces of motionless bettors facing the screens that broadcast, live, a horse race that remains invisible to us.
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