Astres fruitiers, Saint-Pierre-aux-Nonnains, Metz

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Astres fruitiers, Saint-Pierre-aux-Nonnains, Metz

April 5, 2017 - 17 h 00 min - 18 h 00 min

Arsenal de Metz, Saint-Pierre-aux-Nonnains, April 5-9 2017
under the context of  Le Livre festival at Metz

Astres fruitiers

L’Office des planètes
Emmanuel Daydé

In the immense sky, the Sumerian astronomers who eagerly scrutinized the movements in space, identified seven planets in our solar system. As if they sensed beyond the infinity of space …
another recently discovered system: the dwarf and red star of Trappist and the six Earth-sized exoplanets that surround it … An Akkadian hymn to Nanna / Sin, the god of the Moon of Sumer and Akkad, uses the epithet Inbu (Fruit), to describe the evolution of the stars in the sky, which resemble those of fruits in a tree, alternately nascent, rotting and reborn. Explorer of the confines of vertigo, Zad Moultaka then goes in search of this harmony of the spheres, photographing traces of stars in the very heart of the earth, and identifying seven vegetables with seven stars of Babylonian gods (from Shamash to Isthtar). Combining the mystical asceticism of the still life of Zurbaran and the Office of Darkness of Morales with the Spanish Golden Age, with the alchemic experiments of Hicham Berrada today, his fruit stars cross the space dilating it intensely, the way of a space-time loop. Knotty rutabagas in the shape of meteorites, velvety aubergines reminiscent of oblong black planets, eruptive tomatoes with volcanic cones, or pale and lunar mushrooms – which hardly warms a pale solar red cabbage that is dying out – its terrestrial foods metamorphose in dark celestial multitudes floating in infinity. Obtained using very weak luminous brushes and practicing a very long exhibition time, these terrestrial vanities in celestial suspension, seized in a light of eternity, thus become dust of Mesopotamian stars. Journey into the abyss, the astral music of the fruits of Zad Moultaka – who tries to imagine the sound frequency of these distant stars – tests, he says, “the depth of the waters, the night, the surge and the infinite shades that transform the vegetable in another reality “. The Lebanese poet Etel Adnan had predicted: “The human race is moving towards prehistory. Precisely. Going to the planets”.

Emmanuel Daydé, commissaire

with the support of  Central DUPON Images

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Date:
April 5, 2017
Time:
17 h 00 min - 18 h 00 min
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Venue

Saint-Pierre-aux-nonnains
1 Rue de la Citadelle
Metz, 57000 France
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