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« Hello world » Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Australie
2 minFounded in 2005 in Victoria, the Ballarat International Foto Biennale is Australia’s largest contemporary photography festival. The 2019 edition presents some 200 artists in 80 venues throughout the city, including museums, arts centres, galleries and urban spaces, and offers workshops, seminars, screenings, master classes, conferences, portfolio presentations, prizes and a photography education programme, over a month and a half.
The French artists present include Noémie Goudal at the Art Gallery of Ballarat, Mathieu Asselin at the National Centre for Photography, and Vincent Fournier as part of the group exhibition “To the Moon and Back”, which celebrates the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 at the Ballarat Municipal Observatory and Museum.
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2/12BAIKONUR CITY #2, by Vincent Fournier
Vincent Fournier has an aesthetic, philosophical and playful fascination with the adventure of space.
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3/12ERGOL #12, by Vincent Fournier
Vincent Fournier visited the legendary sites of space exploration: Star City in Russia, the Cap Canaveral launch centres in the United States, Baikonur in Kazakhstan, Arianespace in Guiana, the celestial observatories in the Atacama desert in Chile, New Mexico in Nevada, the Martian simulation base in the Utah Red Desert.
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4/12SLS ROCKET SYSTEMS INTEGRATION #1, by Vincent Fournier
For "Space project" Vincent Fournier has enthusiastically combined a historical and documentary vision of space exploration with scenes inspired by cinema and his childhood memories.
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5/12LOWER TORSO SECTION OF THE EMU USED FOR TESTING, by Vincent Fournier
Vincent Fournier has an aesthetic, philosophical and playful fascination with the adventure of space.
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6/12SOKOL SPACE GLOVE, by Vincent Fournier
For "Space project" Vincent Fournier has enthusiastically combined a historical and documentary vision of space exploration with scenes inspired by cinema and his childhood memories.
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7/12APOLLO 8 FIRING ROOM, by Vincent Fournier
Vincent Fournier visited the legendary sites of space exploration: Star City in Russia, the Cap Canaveral launch centres in the United States, Baikonur in Kazakhstan, Arianespace in Guiana, the celestial observatories in the Atacama desert in Chile, New Mexico in Nevada, the Martian simulation base in the Utah Red Desert.
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8/12Telluris I, by Noémie Goudal
Noémie Goudal's work explores the relationship between nature and the artificial, from science to the imaginary, from construction to invention. In Telluris, the artist works with ancient theories on the formation of the texture of the earth, in particular the mountains, which echo the theories of the celestial sphere.
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9/12Telluris V, by Noémie Goudal
Noémie Goudal is particularly interested in radical mathematical and geometric reductions of landscapes which make them easier to grasp and comprehend.
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10/12Telluris X, by Noémie Goudal
With the creation of a collection combining photography and on-site installations, Noémie Goudal explores and interprets mountainous spaces, what they represent and what they inspire, from real geography to subjective projections.
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11/12Ho Chu Minh City, by Mathieu Asselin
Mathieu Asselin bears witness to the impact of Monsanto’s chemicals on the lives of thousands of people. His investigation began in Alabama and lasted for 5 years, eventually taking him to Vietnam, where the consequences of the use of Agent Orange, the herbicide used by the American army in combat between 1959 and 1971, is revealed to the public. Several generations of children have suffered from birth defects.
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The Institut français and the artists
Mathieu Asselin, Vincent Fournier and Noémie Goudal have received support from the Institut français to participate in Australia’s largest contemporary photography festival.