Maud Vareillaud-Bouzzine

        Silence Radio, installation, 2016

        Souvenir de voyage, photographs, 2016

 

Co-produced by diep~haven and the Minister for Culture and Communication, Normandy Regional Directorate of Culture, as a public commission 

 

Drawing on an immersive experience with illegal immigrants and the Centre for the Reception of Asylum Seekers in Dieppe, Maud Vareillaud-Bouzzine presents two works on migration.

Radio Silence is a video installation that immerses the viewer in a maritime landscape, combining infinite calm with the force of an irremovable obstacle. A distress signal puts any solace out of reach. We escape by listening to the words of storytellers, who evoke the essence of an emotional state with their epic testimonies of exile.

In collaboration with photographer Guillaume Le Baube, Souvenir de voyage, presents a series of objects kept by asylum seekers during their travels. Privileging a sensitive view of the refugees, the refined aesthetic of these images contains a latent emotional quality. The project inscribes an ambiguity into the ‘souvenirs’, as it aims to build empathy through the stories of everyday objects.

 

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Born in 1979, Maud Vareillaud-Bouzzine lives and works in Tours in a nomadic fashion. Her work is based on social issues. Far from being vindictive or pessimistic, the artist seeks a committed and poetic contextual form. Undertaking a rereading of events, meaning is produced through interaction between the symbolic significance of the means employed and a committed personal involvement.

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