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.
Pushpamala N
*1956, Bangalore, India. Lives and works in Bangalore, India.
Pushpamala N. is a video, photo and installation artist, writer, theorist, and curator. After receiving a BA in Economics, English and Psychology from Bangalore University, she studied sculpture at M.S. University, Baroda where she graduated in 1985. Since the mid 1990s she has been mainly working in photography, performance and video. She uses women's stories and women's material as a device to explore history, memory and contemporary society. In all of her works, Pushpamala N. is chief actor as well as director, and has a charismatic on-camera presence. Her work has been shown at numerous international exhibitions, biennials, and festivals, including ENSBA, Paris (2005); Tate Modern, London (2006); Saatchi Gallery, London (2008); Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2008); Bose Pacia Gallery, New York (2008); Nature Morte, New Delhi (2008). Her work is part of several major collections such as National Gallery of Modern Art, New Dehli; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Saatchi and Saatchi, London. Besides her artistic activities, Pushpamala N continues to lecture widely.
Solomon Nagler
*Winnipeg, Canada. Lives and works in Halifax, Canada.
Working on the borders of narration and abstraction, Solomon Nagler’s films invite us to explore the inner-selves of the characters he presents. Landscapes and symbols are continually mixed up, raising questions of identity and internal memories. It seems as though, removed from the smooth surfaces of beings, we can touch their true selves.
Marylene Negro
*1957. Lives and works in Paris, France.
Marylène Negro’s films are never remakes. They go there, where the cinema can not. There, where the cinema got tired to go or does not adventure anymore. Their gaze turned to the interior, forces them to attack themselves, to pummel their material through computer software, to push the irrationality furthest away, emotion glows and the slowness beyond the possible.
Nhu Nguyen
*1984. Lives and works in Hamburg, Germany.
Nhu Nguyen is a German filmmaker and photographer. After her apprenticeship as a digital media designer she studied Fine Art at Hochschule der Künste in Bremen. There, she visited the video media class of professor Jean-François Guiton.
Rozenn Nobilet
*1963, Rennes, France. Lives and works in Paris.
From 1992 to 1995, Rozenn Nobilet studied at St. Martin’s College of Art and Design in London, before obtaining a Master’s in Electronic Imaging from The School of Television and Imaging in Dundee, Scotland in 1997.
She started off as a make-up artist for fashion, cinema and the theatre before working as a camerawoman. Since 1994 she has directed several films and art installations. Her work as a filmmaker and artist owes its unique style to her research on writing, as well as everything from documentary filmmaking to video installations. This language she’s assembled allows the public to be directly involved in the representation of cinematographic readings that mix different genres and styles, used as allegories.
Waël Noureddine
*1978, Beirut, Lebanon. Lives and works in Beirut, Lebanon.
Waël Noureddine is first and foremost a writer: a professional journalist and a poet. His films reveal what Pasolini calls 'civil poetry', meaning literary descriptions and criticisms of real situations. Noureddine's films focus on capturing the physical and mental scars of Middle Eastern conflicts whether they apply to buildings, occupied spaces, in gestures or the destructive behaviour of young people. Here we witness cinema that uses all the means at its disposal including realism, editing, calligraphy and musical mosaics to resist against subjugation and resignation. Noureddine's visual poems reveal a heroic conception of images: "A camera is dangerous, when capturing images, we capture them for eternity, it's a big responsibility."
