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Récif

Assia Piqueras, 35mm, 9’52, 2017

Three voices, flanking an infinity of bricks. Their ages are different. They shaped themselves throughout a series of interviews led with the inhabitants. "What do you see when you stand at the window?" They gaze toward color, where the road begins – a place of thirst –, in the desert or in the sea. Three times has the road hit that architectural reef, the paradigm of some modernity – once radiant, soon written off – referred to as a housing block. 
 

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Assia Piqueras
 

Assia Piqueras works as an artist and filmmaker in a transversal way. Shaped by writing, documentary practice, and artistic research, her films do not doubt the power of images but instead question their capacity for revelation, often consenting to their disappearance as a form of expression. Through the interplay of myth, contemporary narratives, and family legends, they delve into what is seen and concealed, spoken and silenced, with particular attention to taboo, traumatic memory, and the violence of inheritance. A former student of the École Normale Supérieure and Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains, she holds a Master’s degree in Documentary Cinema & Visual Anthropology from Paris Nanterre University and was a member of GRAF (Film Anthropology Research Group). While she was a resident of the Casa de Velázquez, she received the Fondation des Artistes grant for her project M.P.C. ou la double vie.
 

​IG: @assia_piqueras

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