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7 febrero 2008 – 30 marzo 2008

MARIE JOSÉ BURKI

Marie José Burki studied literature at the University of Geneva while at the same time pursuing an arts degree at the Ecole Supérieure d’Art Visuel (ESAV), now known as the Haute école d’art et de design (HEAD). This dual preparation led her initially to grant literature and more generally language a preponderant role in her artwork.

As a student at Silvie and Chérif Defraoui’s studio, Burki created an eleven-minute tape in 1985 called Celui qui a vu passer les éléphants blancs (He Who Has Seen White Elephants Passing), a coproduction with Saint-Gervais Geneva that went on to win numerous festival awards. And in 1990, following a residency at the P.S.1 Studio in New York that ran for several months, she created Reading Over and Over. Finally, in 1991, Burki realized, once again with Saint-Gervais’s production assistance, C’est un grand mot que cela (That’s a Big Word That), freely inspired by Diderot’s Jacques the Fatalist, and in 1993, De loin en loin (Here and There). These two works question through narrative the notion of wandering, which is understood as both a development in time and a movement in space.
Following her initial videos, which were in fact constructed like films, Burki started in on work that shows a more spatial conception and is intended for display in an exhibition. With the video series titled ANIMAUX (1991) and A.NI.MAUX (1992) she began doing installations, with relatively simple displays (projection on a wall or the floor, monitors on pedestals or attached to the wall) that occasionally assume spectacular dimensions, revealing the full measure of her approach to art.

MARIE JOSÉ BURKI

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