BRIGHT HOURS
Pioneer of modern architecture, Le Corbusier paces in his studio in search of new ideas. In flashes he remembers a brief but intense encounter with Josephine Baker. Bright Hours speculates on the iconic performer’s impact on the architect’s practice — their affair typically a footnote in both their stories — offering instead a narrative in which Baker transforms Le Corbusier’s vision of form and color. The architect’s masterpiece, the Cité Radieuse in Marseille, stands in as a cruise ship floating on the horizon, suspending norms and boundaries in the queer temporality of the maritime.
Bright Hours, 2023. 4K video, color, sound, 25 minutes. Germain Louvet.
Bright Hours, 2023. 4K video, color, sound, 25 minutes. Emara Neymour-Jackson. Installation view: High Line, New York.
Bright Hours, 2023. 4K video, color, sound, 25 minutes. Jeanne Balibar. Installation view: High Line, New York.
Bright Hours, 2023. 4K video, color, sound, 25 minutes. Installation view: Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.
2024 | Group exhibition
Your Patience is Appreciated, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
2024 | Group exhibition
Dance First, Think Later, Le Commun, Geneva2024 | Screening
Chaillot invite POUSH #2, Chaillot – Théâtre national de la danse, Paris2023 | Group exhibition
NGV Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2023 | Group exhibition
Dancing About Architecture, High Line, New York
2023 | Group exhibition
Chicago Architecture Biennial
2023 | Screening
Festival Côté Court, Pantin, France
2022 | Screening
Art-o-rama, Marseille
Your Patience is Appreciated, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
2024 | Group exhibition
Dance First, Think Later, Le Commun, Geneva2024 | Screening
Chaillot invite POUSH #2, Chaillot – Théâtre national de la danse, Paris2023 | Group exhibition
NGV Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2023 | Group exhibition
Dancing About Architecture, High Line, New York
2023 | Group exhibition
Chicago Architecture Biennial
2023 | Screening
Festival Côté Court, Pantin, France
2022 | Screening
Art-o-rama, Marseille
Credits
With Jeanne Balibar, Emara Neymour-Jackson, Germain Louvet, David Paycha (percussion)| Written by Gerard & Kelly with Loïc Barrère | Director of photography, Clément de Hollogne | Editor Grégoire Brice | Costumes: Glenn Mban | Music: by Moses Sumney | Production: & Compagnie | Coproduction: Caviar with the participation of HVH Films | Powered by Dropbox | With the support of the French Ministry of Culture – Direction générale de la création artistique (DGCA); Carré d’Art – Musée d’art contemporain de Nîmes; Fondation d’entreprise Hermès in the framework of its New Settings programme; CCN – Ballet National de Marseille; Harbor Picture Company; and Justine Schreyer Lewin & Howard Lewin | Associate Producers: Lauri Michelle Firstenberg, Idee German, Taylor Houghton, Jon Hutton, Charles Klein, Geoffrey Kristof, John Schwartz
With Jeanne Balibar, Emara Neymour-Jackson, Germain Louvet, David Paycha (percussion)| Written by Gerard & Kelly with Loïc Barrère | Director of photography, Clément de Hollogne | Editor Grégoire Brice | Costumes: Glenn Mban | Music: by Moses Sumney | Production: & Compagnie | Coproduction: Caviar with the participation of HVH Films | Powered by Dropbox | With the support of the French Ministry of Culture – Direction générale de la création artistique (DGCA); Carré d’Art – Musée d’art contemporain de Nîmes; Fondation d’entreprise Hermès in the framework of its New Settings programme; CCN – Ballet National de Marseille; Harbor Picture Company; and Justine Schreyer Lewin & Howard Lewin | Associate Producers: Lauri Michelle Firstenberg, Idee German, Taylor Houghton, Jon Hutton, Charles Klein, Geoffrey Kristof, John Schwartz