FREE ENTRY
WEDNESDAY - SUNDAY
14 p.m. - 18:30 p.m.
Exhibition supported by the DRAC Grand Est, the Grand Est Region and the City of Strasbourg.
Exhibition co-produced by Stimultania and the GRAPh-CMI
“April 17, 2015 marked the 40th anniversary of the capture of Phnom Penh by the Khmer Rouge followed by more than 3 years of violence. Cambodia still carries with it the traces of this genocide and is rebuilding itself on the unsaid of a traumatized generation. A country of silence. It is my resemblance to his missing sister that triggered my meeting with Tut, a fisherman living in Kampot in the south of Cambodia, then the reciprocal curiosity, and the return of memory. From this tenuous link was woven a relationship of trust, built over more than 3 years, during which he told me about the tortures he suffered when he was still a teenager, and until now buried in him.
Because we don't speak the same language, our communication has developed in silence, through body language. Mimes are part of everyday life, past violence being able to reappear through each object. A cut flower, an amputation; a bagged fruit, suffocation. Tut went so far as to put himself back on the scene, creating reconstructions to bear witness to what he lived. This series shares an intimate encounter and draws a sensory portrait of buried memory, the way in which it shines through in gestures, attitudes and looks, in which it can define a person and mark him for life. "
Emilie Arfeuil
Stimultania and GRAPh-CMI present Emilie Arfeuil's first solo exhibition, Scars of Cambodia, a past in silence. This exhibition features photographs by Émilie Arfeuil as well as video installations by Alex Liebert. The transmedia project Scars of Cambodia It also takes the form of a 30-minute creative documentary, a photo book and a sound slide show.
Emilie Arfeuil was born in Clermont-Ferrand in 1983. She lives and works in Paris between two trips. Photographer and filmmaker, in her projects she closely mixes a documentary approach and staging. In atmospheres with a feeling of "suspended time", inspired by Flemish painting and cinema, she mainly deals with themes of memory, intimacy and questions of identity. In 2014, she shared with director Alex Liebert four Best Documentary Awards (Sedicicorto - Italy, TIFF - Albania, DocsDF - Mexico, Midff Doker - Moscow), a Best Photography Award and a Best Original Music Award (Festival Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film), as well as a Nomination for the Best Photography Award (Grand off - Warsaw) for the documentary film Scars of Cambodia (also selected from around twenty Festivals around the world). His audio slideshows are screened at the Mois de la Photo in Paris, at the MAP as well as at the Assises du Photojournalisme. In 2013, she exhibited at the Salon de la Photo in Paris, at the Galerie Egbert Baqué in Berlin and at the Bophana Center in Phnom Penh. In 2012, she won the Audience Award at the Vichy Portraits Festival and finalist for the Reportage Talent Grant. In 2011, she won the SFR Jeunes Talents prize and produced a carte blanche exhibited at the Forum des Halles and then alongside Doisneau at the Hôtel de Ville. She has been a member of Studio Hans Lucas since 2012.
Alex liebert was born in the Paris region in 1981. She lives and works in Paris between two trips. After studying cinema theory at the Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Alex Liebert directed several short fiction films and experimental works, such as Chimera (3 selections in festivals) or AE [Eudanl'Ah] (12 selections and 5 prizes). In 2010, during an 8-month solo trip to India, she carried out her first documentary experiences, as well as numerous Filmic nonsense. After 3 years on the project Scars of Cambodia (8 prizes, 20 festival selections), she is now working on new creative documentary projects, on urban loneliness and the duty to remember. His approach has the particularity of combining aesthetics and techniques from fiction with documentary writing. Along with her long-term projects, she directs music videos, as well as mini-series, in the form of self-filming, such as Arlala, offbeat webseries on the Rencontres de la Photographie d'Arles, broadcast by the magazine OAI13.