In June 2018, Luxembourg-based artist Carine Krecké stumbled upon a series of photos on Google Maps showing the destruction of Arbin, a town in the northeastern suburbs of Damascus.
These images triggered an obsession within the artist that, for six years, drove her on a frantic quest for information. Delving into official networks, forums, and exchange platforms of all kinds, she explored the stories of tragic fates, both collective and individual.
Faced with a mass of information to verify, Carine Krecké relentlessly conducts her investigation, cross-checking testimonies from her computer screen. She doesn’t hesitate to expose herself to danger by immersing herself in discussions, infiltrating networks, and appropriating investigative and analytical tools.
Hyper-informed without ever losing her critical sense, the artist oscillates between lucidity and vertigo, hypnotized by images and stories, trapped in a fog of war where reality and hallucination merge.
With Perdre le nord, Carine Krecké returns to a total and intimate immersion in a world that was not her own: the war in Syria. She deconstructs (and reconstructs) her investigative experience, both emotional and immersive, by stepping back from the images, the protagonists, and the stakes of her investigation.
The exhibition thus becomes a space of tension between reality and its representation, where the collected documents, stories and visual fragments interact with the architecture that hosts them. Through a set of new videos and a scenographic device conceived as a sensitive cartography, spectators are invited to make their way among these traces and to experience, in turn, a form of wandering in this labyrinth of information and perceptions.
By projecting her investigation into a dialogue with the space and the people who pass through it, Carine Krecké questions the relevance of our perspective on war and the images that bear witness to it. Confronted with these recomposed visions, the public becomes an actor in the experience, bringing their own experiences, emotions, and interpretations to it. The exhibition is therefore not limited to a simple narrative: it is an invitation to rethink our relationship with information and images in times of conflict.
Kevin Muhlen
CHAPELLE DE LA CHARITÉ
Curator: Kevin Muhlen.
Exhibition produced by Lët’z Arles (Luxembourg) with the support of the National Audiovisual Center (CNA), the Casino Luxembourg — Contemporary Art Forum and the Rencontres d’Arles.
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