Posted by Natacha Nisic
black tree
published on : June 11, 2024
L’arbre noir – Black tree
Mer Rose – Pink Sea, Maui, 2023
published on : June 4, 2024Devant la mer devenue rose, peu de temps après la tragédie, alors que l’incendie qui a ravagé la ville de Lahaina est à peine éteint, je pense à cette phrase extraite du poème de Etel Ednan, Time : “sometimes I regret my love of splendor”. Ce n’est peut-être pas l’amour des choses splendides qui me hante, mais le désir d’apprivoiser les fantômes.
In front of the sea, which has turned pink, shortly after the tragedy, when the fire that ravaged the town of Lahaina has barely been extinguished, I think of this phrase from Etel Ednan’s poem Time: ‘sometimes I regret my love of splendor’. Perhaps it’s not the love of splendid things that haunts me, but the desire to tame ghosts.
Biography
Natacha Nisic is a French artist and film maker. She initiated the Project « Crown Letter ».
Natacha Nisic’s work explores the invisible, even magical relationship between images, words, interpretation, symbol and ritual. Her work questions the nature of the image through various media: Super 8, 16MM, video, photography and drawing. For Arte channel, she directed « Andrea’s Sky » (2014) and « Rather Die than Die » (2018) on the First World War and the German art historian Aby Warburg. She has created the Children’s Memorial at the Shoah Memorial in Paris and is working on issues of representation of extreme violence.
Her recent shows include the Centre Pompidou, the Top Museum Tokyo , Media City Biennale in Seoul, Bienal de la Imagen en movement in Buenos Aires, Munfret in Buenos Aires, Hermès Foundation in Seoul (2012), K21 in Düsseldorf, Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Tokyo, British Film Institute, London.