Researcher Fine Art
01.01.07 – 31.12.07
“What does it mean then when video artist Stéphane Querrec takes the aesthetics and text of amateur confessions and condenses these to form a new rehearsed script? (...) Here a host of different voices merge into one universal voice, changing surprisingly as if you were zapping through YouTube with melancholy, hysterical and surprisingly witty monologues. The super-monologue, which is spoken by a non-professional actress with Querrec prompting, is strikingly pertinent and yet also drives you crazy."
Vera Tollmann, Optically correct?
Springerin, issue 2/08
Stephane Querrec is a filmmaker, writer and researcher based in London. In 2005 Querrec was awarded the 1st CAA Artist Award. In 2006 he directed a film in Slovakia, The Black Flower, for which he was nominated for the Altadis Fine Art Prize in Paris.
Since 2005, and currently at Jan van Eyck Academy, Stéphane works on an ambitious study on film which put into question the ethics of the relationship between an artwork and its viewer, focusing on language, exposure, projection and affects.
Stephane Querrec has exhibited regularly in international shows, among others: Bonner Kunstverein, Badischer Kunstverein, BonnefantenMuseum Maastricht, MUMOK Vienna, Video Vortex Berlin /Ankara, Sala Rekalde Bilbao, Cinéma MK2 Bibliothèque François Mitterand, Paris.
His most recent films B L O W F L O W and F L A W will be part of a two persons show at Basis Frankfurt in march 2009.
Biarritz, FR
Lives and works in London since 2007
BASIS Frankfurt, DE. (together with Bjorn Renner)
CHANTING BALDESSARI, Bonnefantenmuseum, NL. Within B.A.C.A Award 2008 John Baldessari.
Talkmasters, Badischer Kunstverein Karlshrue, DE.
Video Vortex 3, Bilkent University, Ankara, TR.
Look B: Nothing is exciting…,MUMOK Museum, Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, AT.
1st Moscow Young Biennale, Moscow, RU.
Calypso, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Basque Country, ES.
2nd Edition Artist Screening at Scott Head, Beauvoir, London, GB
Neue Konzepte, Bonner Kunstverein, DE.
Altadis Fine Art Prize. Cinema MK2 Bibliotheque Francois Mitterand, Paris, FR.
Venez Parler de L’art, MEDEF Centre, Paris, FR.
Metramorphose, The Willow Pump Station Gallery, Houston, Texas, US.
Pacemakers, Bordeaux International Fair, FR.
Le Signal, International Video Festival, Biarritz, FR.
Dialogue, Fine Arts Museum Bordeaux, FR.
Instances of translation. PagesMagazine, Tehran, IR.
Department of Literary Theory. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE
Words, Worlds, Translation. Kingston University, London, GB.
Mourning and Medias. King’s College London, GB.
The actor and the subtext. The National Conservatory of Bordeaux, FR.
What’s the trouble with the Subject? Jan van Eyck Academie, NL.
The Kondo Collection, FR/JP.
Esther and Ulla Rai, Private Collection, US.
CAA Bank’s Registered Office, CAA Collection, FR.
Anthony Auerbach: "Letters to/for Ines Lechleitner and Stephane Querrec”, Vargas Organization London, 2008 Vera Tollmann "Optically Correct? ", Springerin 2008.
Stephane Querrec "Wor(l)ds". By Christop Lueder. In: Kingston University catalogue.
The Beggar Project. Invitation to Dora Garcia. In: Jan van Eyck Academie Maastricht, NL.
Eternal prison of our present time (26 may). With Paul Landon’s video Already blurred (1987) and Yolande Harris’ video Light phase (2004). In: Jan van Eyck Video Weekend. Maastricht, NL.
RETURN TO SENDER. Film. Production Jan van Eyck Academie Maastricht, NL/Province of Limburg.
F L A W. Film. Production Jan van Eyck Academie Maastricht, NL.
F L O W. Film. Production Jan van Eyck Academie Maastricht, NL.
La democracia que construimos. Film. Production C.I.G.U REFORZAR Project, Center for International Urban Management, Quito, EC.
The Black Flower/Biely Kvet. Film. Co-production Ultima/Soga Bratislava, FR/SK.
B L O W. Film. Joint Production Ecole des Beaux-arts de Bordeaux/Guadalupe Echevarria.
E M M A . Sound piece for public installation in Houston, Texas. Joint Production Buffalou Bayou Partnership Houston/la CUB Bordeaux.