Tania Mouraud's 'Exhausted Laughters' at MAMC Saint-Étienne

The exhibition 'Exhausted Laughters' at the Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne features six video and installation works by Tania Mouraud from 2002 to 2012, probing human nature through themes of violence, memory, and the human-nature relationship. Works include 'Once Upon a Time' (2011-2012), showing a machine felling Canadian forest trees; 'Le Verger' (2003), juxtaposing flowering fruit trees with bombings and rocket fire; 'Roaming' (2008), depicting a hunt in the forest; 'No Name' (2012), a dual-screen piece linking a woman blowing into a musical instrument with an abandoned Jewish cemetery in Romania; 'NEEIN' (2002-2008), capturing mortuary plaques from Yad Vashem; and 'Sightseeing' (2002), filmed from a car through a fogged window, ending at the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in Alsace with Klezmer music by Claudine Movsessian. Mouraud's father, a Romanian-born resistance fighter executed in 1945, informs the memory-driven works. The exhibition runs at MAMC Saint-Étienne, and a subsequent show will open at Mac/Val in Vitry this autumn.