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Catherine Radosa
Rues de la Fraternité
Experimental doc. | mov | color | 65:30 | France | 2023
In an urban march, around fifty people trace a symbolic route, supporting banners that carry the power of words. The walk ends on the Square of the Brotherhood, which is transformed into a place for listening and artistic occupation. Seventeen women's voices consider the word "brotherhood" in a polyphony of emancipated testimonies: they open up as many plural, interdisciplinary and intersectional perspectives. The voices are superimposed on a multiplicity of faces, projecting the possibilities of fluid portraits. Letters and words thrown onto the « Place de la Fraternité » interlock, pierce the concrete and give birth to new, forward-looking visions.
Catherine Radosa works at the intersection of places and images, words and situations, whether she encounters them or provokes them, often in public space, notably through video-projection on the scale of architecture, performance, installation. Her works, often contextual and participative, question individual and collective representations on the subject of borders, memory, identity, environment and gender. Between investigation and reverie, through the montage of images, voices, contexts and moments, she constructs figures of collective witnesses who touch the spirit of the place (Prague, Paris, Lima and many other residencies and invitations) and the moment with a distance that is her own, sensitive without effusion, direct, delicate, sometimes grating. Depending on the piece, she borrows and crosses several languages. Her processual works consist of participative situations and performances on the scale of landscape and architecture, but also films for screening in theatres, for diffusion on screens, for installation, images for printing and publishing, sound pieces for installation or radio broadcasting. Text by Christophe Domino, art critique