Maïder Fortuné's Memory-Laden Exhibition at Galerie Martine Aboucaya

Maïder Fortuné's exhibition 'Le Quatrième Mur' at Galerie Martine Aboucaya in Paris (January 8 – February 26, 2011) explores memory through various media. The title, inspired by Kafka, refers to a blank projection screen for reminiscent images. The series 'Figures défaites (Origamis)' features photographs of origami-folded paper flattened, evoking Deleuze's concept of the fold. The video 'Carrousel' is a fictional tracking shot entirely studio-made, inspired by Virginia Woolf's 'The Waves' (section 'Time Passes'), depicting a archetypal vacation house with objects and a child doing homework. Shot in Scope format, it references Japanese scrolls and 19th-century panoramas, forming a loop without beginning or end. A magnifying mirror on the wall reflects 'Carrousel' from a distance, but up close it shows the viewer's face, unlike Van Eyck's 'Arnolfini Portrait'. 'Aurore' is a 'pure device' exploring cinema's immateriality: a projector hidden in a skylight, a tracing paper screen, and a wall receiving light. Using software, Fortuné balanced white and black for each frame of Murnau's 'Sunrise', creating a monochrome projection oscillating between white and gray, described as 'a fight of light between the moon and the sun'. The final video 'Souffle' shows breath on a one-way mirror, intimate yet distant, continuing her work on images that appear and disappear.