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Manifesta 7 in Bolzano (Italy). Go see the work of Valérie Mréjen and Claire Fontaine amongst others.
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Claire Fontaine pursues an ongoing interrogation of the political impotence and the crisis of singularity that affects contemporary art today. ‘Siamo con voi nella notte’ ( ‘We are with you in the night’) is a mural inscription scrawled on a wall in an Italian town in the 1970s. In this ambiguous sentence, “the night” represents the prison but also the uncertain zone of obscurity proper to every clandestine resistance. The night is the space of non-distinction where those marks that divide the singularities fade.
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Artist and writer Valérie Mréjen is working on an extensive documentary about the Valvert Psychiatric Hospital in Marseilles. During a visit in March 2008, she shot a short video that is presented at Manifesta 7.

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