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There is a way of perceiving things or observing them that does not involve the eyes. Something that goes beyond the ordinary vision. The project takes place in a series of experiments filmed in the observatory of french astronomer Camille Flammarion, in Juvisy-sur-Orge. The main idea of the film is based on the relationship between telepathy and astronomy, a mysterious correlate that haunted the research of the French scientist Camille Flammarion (1842-1925) until the end of his life. The Observatory is a filmic exploration that works as an attempt to reactivate the place. The transmissions of thoughts then metaphorically reflect the structure of the film, but also become its own language as and when. The camera records and probes beyond the tangible, and the editing does not depend on a narrative in the strict sense but rather the relationships and coincidences that have been established during the passage of each in this observatory. It is first of all to make those who watch the film feel the tremors and uncertainties aroused by the telepathic experience. On January 18th 2016, a group consisting of a psychic, scientists and paranormal investigators, is invited inside a mysterious observatory in the Paris suburbs. During several days, they try to explore the site through their specific skills. While ignoring everything from this observatory, they each reactivate in their own way the history of this place and of his owners Camille Flammarion.

Vincent Ceraudo (1986, France), lives and works in Rotterdam. His work call into question perception and the constructs of rationalism, culture, and capitalism. Through various recordings and images, videos, films, photography, writings, and installation, he tries to capture and to reveal what might exist outside perception. His work interrogates a liminal space that exists in the gaps of culture and reality. He studied at the Villa Arson in Nice, and postgraduate at the Fresnoy National Studio of Contemporary Arts, France. He was an artist in residence at De Ateliers in Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2016-2018, and he is a fellow of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture USA His work has been screened and exhibited internationally, including recently in 2018 at Lo schermo Dell’Arte Film Festival in Firenze, Italy, at Fondazione Antonio Ratti in Como Italy, at De Ateliers, in Amsterdam, at la station gare des Mines in Paris, in 2017 at the Faculty of Science of Torino, Italy, (with the Institute of Things to Come and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo), at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, at the Art Center of the Villa Arson in Nice, at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, at the Skoweghan program space in New York, as a guest artist during the 62ème salon de Montrouge in Paris, in 2016 at the Skoweghan School of Painting and Sculpture open USA, at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, at the Fresnoy Studio National of Contemporary Arts, in 2015 in Palais de Tokyo in Paris, at la Fabrica del Vapore in Milano, as a guest artist of Art-O-Rama, the international contemporary art fair in Marseille, France, at the Fundation Botin, Santander Spain, at the MUMA, Monash University Museum in Melbourne, Australia. Vincent is a finalist of the Fresnoy studio collector prize 2016, a recipient of the 2015 Mécènes du Sud grants in Marseille, of the 2015 Caza De Velazquez specific Grants in Madrid, of the 2014 1st Prize of the show-room during Art-O-rama, in Marseille. His works has been included in several public and private collections in Italy, France, Belgium and The Netherlands.