Innovative Curatorial Projects – Paris / SingaporeLowave Collection
Lowave's film and video collection has been built between 2002 and 2014 and features over 250 video artists and filmmakers from around the world. The label has contributed to an important number of international exhibitions, biennials, film and video festivals, as well as academic programmes. As Lowave's activities evolve, we have stopped our film distribution and our catalogue serves now as an archive that documents over a decade of film and video art history. A selection of our DVDs is on sale at Re:Voir in Paris.
Malachi Farrell
*1970, Dublin, Ireland. Lives and works in Malakoff, France.
Having studied electronic art, his complex installations link light and sound to the mechanical choreography of his invented objects. Their tinkered and handcrafted characteristics reinforce the dark humor and satire suggestive of circus and street theatre.
As they engage audiences with political, social, and ecological phenomenon, his works create uneasiness and prompt us to act. Drawing from global issues with the help of grunge-punk pop culture, Farrell highlights the conflict between nature and industry as he defies our consumerist society. His work is exhibited around the world and has been included in some of the most prestigious international art collections.
Mireille Astore
*1961, Beirut, Lebanon. Lives and works in Sydney, Australia.
Mireille Astore is an artist, a writer and adjunct lecturer at the Sydney College of the Arts, the Visual Arts Faculty of the University of Sydney. She has a PhD in Contemporary Arts and her video artworks have been highly acclaimed and have been shown in such venues as the Tate Modern, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 8th Sharjah Biennial and 3rd Guangzhou Triennial, Home Works IV – Beirut, and Santa Margherita Auditorium, Venice. In 2003 she won the (Australian) National Photographic Purchase Award and she is featured in the Thames and Hudson Publication New Vision: Arab Contemporary Art in the 21st Century.
Of Mireille Astore’s Tampa artwork, it was said: “Just as Benjamin noted the contextual aesthetic consequences of the circulation of photographic images through newspapers and magazines, Astore’s combination of photography with sculpture and performance, circulated via her website, rewrites both photography and the spatial and interpretive dynamics of this installation work.” Peter Hutchings, Eyeline issue 54, Winter 2004.
Mounir Fatmi
*Born 1970 in Tangier, Morocco. Lives and works in Paris, France.
Mounir Fatmi constructs visual spaces and linguistic games that aim to free the viewer from his preconceptions of politics and religion, and allows him to contemplate these and other subjects in new ways. His videos, installations, drawings, paintings and sculptures bring to light our doubts, fears and desires. They directly address the current events of our world, and serve to both clarify the origins and symptoms of global issues, as well as speak to those whose lives are affected by specific events.
Mounir Fatmi's work has been exhibited in the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland, the Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, and the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan. He also participated in the Gwangju Biennial, Korea, and the 2nd Seville Biennial, Spain. In 2006 he was awarded the Grand Prize at the 7th Dakar Biennial. In 2007 his work was included in the 1st Luanda Triennial in Angola, 8th Biennial of Sharjah and the 52nd Biennial of Venice. In 2008, his video Embargo has been shown at the Tate Modern in London, in the retrospective Paradise Now! Essential French Avant-garde Cinema 1890-2008.
Fabian Astore
*1964, Sydney, Australia. Lives and works in Sydney, Australia.
Fabian Astore is a digital media artist and filmmaker. His work has been exhibited at numerous national and international festivals including: Sydney Film Festival 2004; Berlin International Video Festival; Cadiz International Video Festival; Exground Filmfest Wiesbaden, Fluxusonline 2006 and the Adelaide Film Festival 2007 in Australia.
He has also completed digital animations for 9 large scale theatre productions including; Jake and Pete which played at the Sydney Theatre Company and the Winnipeg Festival; Mad Bad and Spooky at the 2001 Sydney Festival; Stella and the Moon Man at the Sydney Theatre and which was the winner of the 2006 Helpman Award for Best Children's Presentation. In 2007, he produced an animation for an Australia-Japan collaboration with the Kageboushi Theatre Company, Japan. In the second half of 2006 he was a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Media, Film, Theatre and Dance at the University of NSW and is currently a sessional lecturer there.
Philippe Fernandez
*1958, Paris, France. Lives and works between Paris and Bordeaux, France.
Born in 1958, Philippe Fernandez lives and works between Paris and Bordeaux. He teaches video art and contemporary art history at the University Bordeaux 3. Philippe Fernandez has directed two short films: Reflection and Philosophical Tale (The cave). He recently completed his first feature film Light earthquake landscape.
