Anri Sala: Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.(recent films that explore repetition)

ANRI SALA

MUSEE D'ART MODERNE DE LA VILLE DE PARIS

There is something soothing and even soporific about repetition; it is, after all, the foundation not only of lullabies but also of certain hypnotic techniques. Sometimes, however, the monotony of repetition becomes irritating, unbearable, indeed, eventually torturous. The Paris-based Albanian artist Anri Sala is an expert in creating mesmerizing forms of repetition that produce strange states of mind, but he never goes so far as to cause pain. In the film Uomoduomo, 2001, which won the Young Artist Prize at the 2001 ...

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