Marcher à côté de ses lacets dans un frigidaire vide

Chantal Akerman

2004

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Collection: Courtesy of the artist & Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris/New York.

Diaries, letters and personal stories play a prominent role in Chantal Akerman’s work. The spiral-shaped installation Marcher à côte de ses lacets dans un frigidaire vide examines the contents of Akerman’s grandmother’s diary – a rare document that was discovered after she was murdered in Auschwitz. Akerman’s mother, herself a survivor of the Shoah, has added her own thoughts; Akerman’s sister and Akerman herself have also added a couple of lines to the diary. Words and drawings from the memoir are projected onto a transparent, spiralling screen. In addition to these visual cues, we overhear a conversation between Chantal Akerman and her mother about memories, being a woman, their mother and grandmother, life in the camps and history.

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