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VOYAGE EN UCHRONIE – matali crasset

06/05/2013

 

 

A film by matali crasset, Juli Susin and Julia Rublow. 

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Paris Pantin 

7th of June – 20th of July 2013

 

 

In the forest where the mystical mathematician Pythagoras lived and died, a tribe carries out imaginary rituals. Against the backdrop of water, air and sun, Uchronia’s universe unfolds, a world born out of a collision of figures and colors.

Do other worlds appear and disappear on the way to ours? What remains? Were the numbers at the origin of forms and colors there before us? This transformation of the Pythagorean question where the origin of our civilization crosses path with the future, is a temporal transgression and colorful introspection that gives birth to the film with a pulsating and hypnotic rhythm.
At the end of the film a herd of wild boar gathered around an airplane evoke Leonardo da Vinci’s metaphor “Salvatico è colui che si salva,” which means “Wild he who saves himself.”

Flee into the air? Flee in a dream? Flee in space? Flee human beings? In uchronia the time is larger that history.

 

 

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