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.
Sebastien Cros
*France. Lives and works in New York, USA.
Cinematographer, photographer and sound designer, Sébastien Cros explores the cinematographic form of the performance using 16mm, Super 8 as well as video, turntable and several softwares. It carries out several multi-screens films and actions for several projectors (Nocte, 2003 ; Tabula Rasa, 2005) which explore widened shapes of the cinema ( mixing of filmic textures, scrapings of the emulsion of film carried out on line, with electronic engineering of the treatment of sound, samples) More than simple linear film show, he proposes to the spectators to discover a renewed perception of the image and sounds. In 2004, Sébastien Cros along with his co-performer Carole Arcega, established the association Label Ombres, in order to continue this new cinematographic concept by creation, edotion and diffusion of such rare filmic moments. The cinema is living art as well as plastic art. It is in this perspective that the association testify its existence and the support thus offered to the artists, however keeping on developping new orientations.
Since 2005, Sébastien Cros works on the creation of Zora Lab, a cinematographic laboratory based in Sarajevo. The concept of functioning of this organization is a laboratory which purpose is to form an embryonic nucleus of energy that can communicate out of the limited area, meaning to gather the creative pulses that search for contact between innumerous existing, though unexpressed, potentials: in order to create connecting channels which have to establish the sphere structure of the society in Bosnia and Hercegovina, and Earth in general.
GG Tarantola
*1972, Italy. Lives and works in Milan, Italy.
GG Tarantola, born in 1972, has moved from the world of underground comics to animation and painting. Since 2000, he has actively participated in the work of Sun Wu-Kung, an experimental collective from Milan in which its participants create performances and audiovisual productions for television, internet sites, fashion designers, expositions, etc. The work of this collective is based on experimentation, whether it be for production or methods of working. His short film Novanta, available on Lowave's Urban Visions DVD compilation, follows the same approach.
Steffi Stangl
*1976. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Steffi Stangl studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Berlin- Weissensee. She has been examinating the rules of gravity for many years. Based on these researches she has developed several cinetic installations and objects that challenge the physical laws. She has participated in numerous international exhibitions and works as a beekeeper in Berlin.
Pierre-Yves Cruaud
*1973, France. Lives and works in Montpellier, France.
Video artist, Pierre-Yves Cruaud is also involved in photography and sound creation. His videos deal with the agonizing speed of cities, global surveillance systems breaking barriers between public and private life and the omnipresence of images resulting in a transitory appearance.
Eleonore De Montesquiou
*1970, France. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Tallinn, Estonia.
Éléonore de Montesquiou is a Franco-Estonian artist. Her work revolves around the articulation between private and official histories, personal and national identities. Based on her personal experience of uprootedness, she tackles the intricacies and ambiguities of living in the margins.
Antoine De Roux
*1955, Montereau, France. Lives and works in Paris, France.
Passionate about photography and cinema, Antoine de Roux has directed many short films in super eight. In 1975, he joined a production house as an assistant editor to Ragnar Van Levden and chief editor to William Klein working on reports and documentaries. In 1980, he became a professional photographer focussing on still life and architecture. During this period, he exhibited his work at the Centre National de la Photographie, the Centre Pompidou and the National Library. In the late 1990s, through his meeting and involvement with artists, he returns to his first passion, installation and film.
