by Rebecca Digne, France 2008, 1'
Film 16 mm transferred on video. Loop projection
Courtesy the artist and Jeanine Hofland Contemporary Art
Presented at VISIO – European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images - 4th edition
Winner of VISIO Young Talent Acquisition Prize (1st edition) Rebecca Digne’s films are marked by the repetition of actions, small gestures and suspended and often unsettled situations. Using film as her medium, the artist investigates at the same time the symbolic and conceptual potential of the gesture and that of the means used to
record it. In Kino Peinture, Digne creates a portrait on 16mm film, with clear references to art history from Vermeer to Richter. The girl’s expression, her breathing, and her looking away from a blank cinema screen, induce a sense of anticipation and disorientation further enhanced by the duration of the shots and the non-stop reiteration of the looped film.