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.
Goddy Leye
*1965, Cameroon. †2011, Mbouda, Cameroon.
A teacher and cultural activist as well as a video artist, Goddy Leye played a key role on the Cameroonian arts scene, notably in the context of the Art Bakery, an experimental laboratory for contemporary practice that he founded in Bonendale, on the outskirts of Douala. There, he welcomed and mentored emergent artists from around the world. Following studies at the University of Yaounde and the Rijksakademie (Amsterdam), he participated in numerous residencies and group shows (Africa Remix 2004-07, Dakar Biennale in 1998, 2002 and 2010, the São Paulo Biennale in 2002), solo exhibitions (espace doul'Art, Douala, Galerie Peter Hermann, Berlin), and international film and video festivals (Vidéoformes, Clermont-Ferrand, France and Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Germany, among many others). He received numerous awards and prizes, notably from UNESCO, the Rockefeller Foundation and The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Goddy Leye passed away in 2011. He is sorely missed.
Simon Liu
*1987. Lives and works in Brooklyn, USA and Hong Kong, China.
Born from a Chinese father and an English mother, filmmaker Simon Liu has spent his childhood between Hong Kong and Stoke-On-Trent in England. Often immersed in peoples and practices foreign to him, Simon developed a fascination with gesture and forms of communication stripped of words.
Denis D. Lüthi
*1980. Lives and works in Munich, Germany.
Denis D. Lüthi trained as a photographer in Zurich whilst practicing as an independent photographer, lightning technician and cameraman. He studied at HFF in Munich and contributed to over 25 short, documentary and feature films. A short film about laughter, co-directed by Nuria Gómez Garrido has been shown at many international film festivals.
Pauline M'Barek
*1979, Cologne, Germany, lives and works in Cologne, Germany and Brussels, Belgium.
Pauline M’Barek joined the Hamburg fine arts school in 2000. In 2003 she received the Cusanuswerk scholarship. That same year she studied at ESBAM. She joined the Vorwerkstift artists union in 2005. In 2007 she obtained the Karl H. Ditze prize for best diploma project. Parallel to her video work, she continues to illustrate in order to explore the associations of pictographic images to global images. Her recent videos and drawings are tightly linked. Pauline has participated in a number of exhibitions and international festivals.
Waheeda Malullah
*1978, Bahrain. Works and lives in Isa Town, Bahrain.
Waheeda Malullah studied at the University of Bahrain, where she works since 2003. As a graphic artist and videographer, she organizes and participates in numerous workshops. She is a member of the Bahrain Contemporary Art Association and exhibits at the Al Riwaq gallery.
Her visual work has been presented in group exhibitions at Art Dubai, the Sharjah Biennial, the Delfina Foundation of London, the 11th International Cairo Biennale, the International Festival of video arts in Ben M 'Sik, Casablanca and in numerous galleries across Europe. She has participated in the exhibitions Identity in the Process of Change at Danish Center for Culture and Develop, and Video Art: Play in Copenhagen, Video Land in Berlin, and Within the Region, a touring program of contemporarily art video from the Arabic region organized by Medrar for Contemporary Arts. She has made nearly a dozen videos since 2005 and his work has received numerous awards in the Kingdom of Bahrain and Egypt.
Melanie Manchot
*1966. Lives and works in London, UK.
Melanie Manchot is working in photography, video and sound. Her work examines relations between the individual and the parameters of public space, both socially and culturally constructed. She has a particular interest in gestures that have the capacity to reveal her subjects subtlety and build up a layered portrait that goes beyond the representation of appearances.
http://www.melaniemanchot.net/
