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CHOREOGRAPHY, an exhibition with a series of accompanying events, was organised and complied by Paul Becker.The exhibition at Arcade took as its starting point the work of the French writer/director Marguerite Duras and in particular, two of her films: India Song (1975) and Baxter, Vera Baxter (1977). In both films, as in many of the novels, a central figure, herself inert, acts as the epicentre. In one film, she lies in bed all day, never leaves her house while the rest of the characters constellate around her story. In the other film, she moves ‘alone, queen like’ through various ambassadorial parties and stilted, stylised and detached entanglements with a series of beautiful young men. Both films trace the choreography of these central lacunae who delineate and encrypt desire but are themselves disconnected from any emotional life. These ‘lovers without love’ act as the critical centre point in much of Duras’ work.The exhibition was further activated by a series of talks, readings, interventions and post facto discussion with Ghislaine Leung, Chris Fite-Wassilak, Sophie Macpherson, Sam Watson, Natasha Soobramanien, Paul Becker, Francesco Pedraglio and Nadia Hebson
Artist(s): Leung G, Soobramanien S, Pedraglio F, Becker P, Hebson N, Macpherson S, Wright E
Publication type: Exhibition
Publication status: Published
Year: 2017
Venue: Arcade
Location: London, UK
