Louidgi Beltrame's Cinelândia at Galerie Jousse Entreprise

Louidgi Beltrame presents Cinelândia at Galerie Jousse Entreprise in Paris from January 14 to March 3, 2012. The exhibition takes its name from Rio's former cinema district and continues Beltrame's exploration of modernist ruins. Three films compose the show: the first is a vacation-like film showing Beltrame and Elfi Turpin digging up ammonite fossils, referencing Claude Lévi-Strauss's Tristes Tropiques. The second film revisits Gunkanjima, an abandoned coal mine island off Nagasaki resembling a battleship. Nakanoshima, a garden above the sea, depicts the opposite island, once a Buddhist cemetery and leisure spot, now deserted. The centerpiece, Cinelândia, features footage of Oscar Niemeyer's abandoned Casa de Canoas in the Brazilian jungle, overlaid with the script of an unrealized Antonioni film about a journalist and ethnologist lost in the jungle who glimpse Brasilia. Texts by Marguerite Duras, J.G. Ballard (The Crystal Forest), and anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (Cannibal Metaphysics) disrupt and enchant the narrative.