The Common Space

The Common Space (2018) by Raphaele Bezin

It is not a landscape. It is not a modern city. It has never produced a language nor an industry. It is a city of ruins, wonderful, that produces nothing. Built with cutted, distorted and superimposed images extracted from the collective imaginary of cinema. It is a microcosm. A layered document containing evidence of urban and filmic evolution.

Raphaele Bezin. Born in 1987, in Paris. After acquiring a Master of Research in Fine Arts at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, she joins the National School of Arts in Paris - Cergy where she obtains a National Diploma in Plastic Arts. There, she discovers the practice of playback and shoots a series of films reenacted from various audio recordings. This reappropriation - peculiar to her work - mainly applies to the field of cinema, sometimes summoning swathes of its history. She enters Le Fresnoy, national studio of contemporary art in 2014 and for two years she works entirely on film installations. Her work has been presented in exhibitions approaching the thematics of reuse and confusion between reality and fiction, in places such as the Palais de Tokyo, the MAC/VAL, Le BAL, and film festivals like the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, the Kaohsiung Film Festival or Annecy International Animated Film Festival.