"Attracted by the sea and the coastline for as long as he can remember, Marcel Dinahet auscultates with his camera the sky, the surface and the bottom of the ocean."
On the occasion of the opening of our new space the French artist Marcel Dinahet is invited to present his recent to present his recent works: "Epaves" and "Le nuage s'efface ". As part of a project initiated by the Suspended Spaces collective at La Colonie de Paris, he made a series of works (drawings, videos), from which these two videos are issued.
Attracted by the sea and the coast since always, Marcel Dinahet auscultates
with his camera the sky, the surface and the bottom of the ocean. The video "
presents the dissolution of a cloud in the sky of the twilight, whereas this one
of the twilight sky, as it arrives over the sea. "Wreckage "testifies to Dinahet's fascination with the remnants of warships and warplanes lying on the ocean floor. Whether they collide collision in a swirl of sand or deteriorating from rust, these wrecks remain rust, these wrecks remain far away from men; this is what incites the artist to the artist to document their fate. With the help of a camera carried hand or hung on the ship, subjected to the movements of water and
water and wind, Marcel Dinahet's videos immerse us in the environments he explores. In total immersion.
Marcel Dinahet was born in 1943 in Plouigneau Finistère, and lives and works
in Rennes. He took part in several group exhibitions in 2016, including Videocity, Videosea at Canopé de Caen, in the cities of Lisbon and Coimbra in Portugal and at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art and Contemporary Art Museum in Palma, Spain. In 2015, his work was
the subject of a solo exhibition at the Alliance française de Bogota
(Colombia).