Le peuple qui manque
Post-exotisme
2014, Cinema permanent / Film Program
There have been various systems of cinematographic representation under the
prism of discovering “the other”. Historically these have exalted the idea
of “elsewhere” and its incommensurability. Several visual systems are based on this kind of “visual orientalism”: ethnographic
cinema (which claims to represent non-Western cultures in a transparent way), visual and cultural tourism (with its well-
known connotations, from postcards of exotic vistas, to travel diaries), optical control devices in war contexts, and the “misery porn” of humanitarian photojournalism. In the form of a “permanent cinema”, this video work offers several strategies
developed in film by contemporary artists who violate this “colonialism of seeing”, putting authority in the production of images into a state of crisis, and inviting a shifting of this visual exoticism.
L. van Brummelen & S. de Haan, Episode of the Sea, Film still
Aliocha Imhoff and Kantuta Quirós are cultural theorists and curators based in Paris and the founders of the curatorial platform le peuple qui
manque (a people is missing). Working at the intersection between art
and research, le peuple qui manque have initiated many exhibitions, curatorial projects, international conferences, festivals, retrospectives, film screenings and publications