Seu trabalho artístico interroga os modos hegemônicos de existência e de subjetivação da história. Por meio de filmes ensaios e experimentais, instalações, intervenções no espaço público, pintura caligráfica, escrita asêmica, livros-objetos e poesia experimental, Antoine de Mena problematiza a branquitude, a dimensão fascista da linguagem assim como a fábrica do consentimento com a destruição do alheio, seja humano ou não-humano.
Quais são as situações, formas de inscrição e silêncios que resistem às injunções das imagens e narrativas industriais contemporâneas? E, neste mesmo movimento de resistência, como conciliar em nós o um e o múltiplo? Como reintegrar a morte na vida, o sonho na vigília? Como aceitar e tornar libertária a nossa impermanência côsmica?
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Nascido na França em uma família de imigrantes espanhóis e italianos, cresceu em Lyon e Barcelona, entre as línguas. Fator que o situou num espaço-limiar, numa forma de permanente existência-tradução.
Estudos universitários em História (Sorbonne-Paris IV) e Línguas Orientais (INALCO, Paris e Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) levaram ele até o Japão, obtendo um Mestrado em História do cinema japonês. Depois de concluir um segundo Mestrado em Realização de Cinema Documentário no Créadoc-Ateliers Varan (formação criada pelo cineasta francês Jean Rouch), frequentou durante anos a cena do cinema documentário e experimental parisiense, prosseguindo com o sua pesquisa na realização de curtas e média-metragens e na escrita poética plurilíngue em francês, espanhol, catalão, português e japonês.
Residente no Rio de Janeiro desde 2021, é membro do Grupo de pesquisa Eiras-Paracambi, coordenador do xow.rumi (apoio Capacete), espaço independente de arte e política na Glória, Rio de Janeiro, e integrante do coletivo de artistas do referido espaço. Também colabora com Selvagem, Ciclo de Estudos, como editor (ciclos Memórias Ancestrais e Ayvu Pará) e tradutor para o francês e o japonês.
EXIBIÇÕES & PRÊMIOS
2023
Encruzilhadas Poéticas, xow.rumi/Capacete, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (grupo)
Glória#2 - encontro de águas barulhentas, xow.rumi/Capacete, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (grupo)
Glória#1, xow.rumi/Capacete, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (grupo)Tropigalpão: presente!, Tropigalpão, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (grupo)
Alumbramento, xow.rumi/Capacete, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (grupo)
Grupo de pesquisa Eiras-Paracambi / Encontro #1, #2, #3, xow.rumi/Capacete, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (grupo)
Um dia a gente viveu junto, xow.rumi/Capacete, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (grupo)
Rebento, xow.rumi/Capacete, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (grupo)
Fantaisies #1, La Centrale 22, Paris, France (solo)
Découdre des patrons #3, Pauline Perplexe, Arcueil, France (grupo)
Rio de ma fenêtre: journal pandémique en quatre temps, Capacete, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (solo)
PAN #1, #2, #3, #4, #5 (grupo, online show)
LEBABEL #6, Librairie portugaise et brésilienne, Paris, France (grupo)
Home and Journey around the Globe, 2nd International Colloquium in Contemporary Philosophy and Culture of the Society for Philosophy as Global Conversation, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (grupo)
Union des poètes et des boulangers / Atelier « Pain en chantier », Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (grupo)
2017
Thérapoètes, Nuit Blanche, Paris, France (grupo)2016
Silence Project, l'Etna, Paris, France (solo film projection)
2013
Yamanaka Sadao, l'atérité en face, Festival de l'histoire de l'art, Fontainebleau, France (solo film projection)
2012
"Art & Caméra" Premiação, Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art (INHA, France), por um projeto de filme sobre o diretor de cinema japonês Sadao Yamanaka (1909-1938)2011
Cellules, l'Etna, Paris, France (solo film projection)
2009
America's Game, La Société de Curiosités, Paris, France (solo film projection) 2008
Reliefs, Ateliers Varan, Paris France (solo film projection)Mestrado (Master 2) em Realização de Filme Documentário na Université de Poitiers, CRÉADOC, Pôle Magélis, Angoulême, France.
Mestrado (D.E.A.) em Língua e Cultura Japonesa no Institut National des
Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris, France. Com período sanduíche na Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 東京外国語大学, Japan.
Bacharelado em História na Université Sorbonne - Paris IV, France.
BIO
Antoine de Mena is a French-Spanish artist. He lives and works in Rio de Janeiro since 2021.
His artistic work interrogates the hegemonic modes of existence and subjectivation of history. Through essay and experimental films, installations, interventions in public space, calligraphic painting, asemic writing, book-objects and experimental poetry, Antoine de Mena problematizes whiteness, the fascist dimension of language as well as the manufactory of consent to the destruction of the others, whether human or non-human.
What are the situations, forms of inscription and silences that resist the injunctions of contemporary industrial images and narratives? And, in this same resistance movement, how can we reconcile the one and the multiple in ourselves? How to reintegrate death into life, dreaming into waking life? How to accept and make our cosmic impermanence libertarian?
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Born in France to a family of Spanish and Italian immigrants, he grew up in Lyon and Barcelona, between languages. A factor that placed it in a threshold space, in a form of permanent existence-translation.
University studies in History (Sorbonne-Paris IV) and Oriental Languages (INALCO, Paris and Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) took him to Japan, obtaining a Master's degree in History of Japanese cinema. After completing a second Master's Degree in Documentary Film Direction at Créadoc-Ateliers Varan (training created by French filmmaker Jean Rouch), he frequented the Parisian documentary and experimental cinema scene for years, continuing his research in directing short and medium-length films. films and plurilingual poetic writing in French, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Japanese.
Resident in Rio de Janeiro since 2021, he is a member of the Eiras-Paracambi research group, coordinator of xow.rumi (Capacete support), an independent art and politics space in Glória, Rio de Janeiro, and a member of the artists' collective at that space. He also collaborates with Selvagem, Ciclo de Estudos, as editor (cycles Memórias Ancestrais and Ayvu Pará) and translator into French and Japanese.
His artistic work interrogates the hegemonic modes of existence and subjectivation of history. Through essay and experimental films, installations, interventions in public space, calligraphic painting, asemic writing, book-objects and experimental poetry, Antoine de Mena problematizes whiteness, the fascist dimension of language as well as the manufactory of consent to the destruction of the others, whether human or non-human.
What are the situations, forms of inscription and silences that resist the injunctions of contemporary industrial images and narratives? And, in this same resistance movement, how can we reconcile the one and the multiple in ourselves? How to reintegrate death into life, dreaming into waking life? How to accept and make our cosmic impermanence libertarian?
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Born in France to a family of Spanish and Italian immigrants, he grew up in Lyon and Barcelona, between languages. A factor that placed it in a threshold space, in a form of permanent existence-translation.
University studies in History (Sorbonne-Paris IV) and Oriental Languages (INALCO, Paris and Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) took him to Japan, obtaining a Master's degree in History of Japanese cinema. After completing a second Master's Degree in Documentary Film Direction at Créadoc-Ateliers Varan (training created by French filmmaker Jean Rouch), he frequented the Parisian documentary and experimental cinema scene for years, continuing his research in directing short and medium-length films. films and plurilingual poetic writing in French, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Japanese.
Resident in Rio de Janeiro since 2021, he is a member of the Eiras-Paracambi research group, coordinator of xow.rumi (Capacete support), an independent art and politics space in Glória, Rio de Janeiro, and a member of the artists' collective at that space. He also collaborates with Selvagem, Ciclo de Estudos, as editor (cycles Memórias Ancestrais and Ayvu Pará) and translator into French and Japanese.
EXHIBITIONS & AWARDS
2023
Encruzilhadas Poéticas, xow.rumi/Capacete, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (group)
Glória#2 - encontro de águas barulhentas, xow.rumi/Capacete, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (group)
Glória#1, xow.rumi/Capacete, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (group)
3rd International Colloquium in Contemporary Philosophy and Culture of the Society for Philosophy as Global Conversation, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (group)
Tropigalpão: presente!, Tropigalpão, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (group)
2022
Alumbramento, xow.rumi/Capacete, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (group)
Grupo de pesquisa Eiras-Paracambi / Encontro #1, #2, #3, xow.rumi/Capacete, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (group)
Um dia a gente viveu junto, xow.rumi/Capacete, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (group)
Rebento, xow.rumi/Capacete, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (group)
2021
Fantaisies #1, Capacete, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (solo)
Fantaisies #1, La Centrale 22, Paris, France (solo)
Découdre des patrons #3, Pauline Perplexe, Arcueil, France (group)
Rio de ma fenêtre: journal pandémique en quatre temps, Capacete, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (solo)
2020
PAN #1, #2, #3, #4, #5 (group, online show)
2019
LEBABEL #6, Librairie portugaise et brésilienne, Paris, France (group)
Home and Journey around the Globe, 2nd International Colloquium in Contemporary Philosophy and Culture of the Society for Philosophy as Global Conversation, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (group)
2018
Union des poètes et des boulangers / Atelier « Pain en chantier », Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (group)
2017
Thérapoètes, Nuit Blanche, Paris, France (group)
2016
Silence Project, l'Etna, Paris, France (solo film projection)
2013
Yamanaka Sadao, l'atérité en face, Festival de l'histoire de l'art, Fontainebleau, France (solo film projection)
2012
"Art & Caméra" Award winning, Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art (INHA, France), for a film project about Japanese Film Director Sadao Yamanaka (1909-1938)
> presentation at Tokyo University (Japan)
2011
Cellules, l'Etna, Paris, France (solo film projection)
2009
America's Game, La Société de Curiosités, Paris, France (solo film projection)
2008
Reliefs, Ateliers Varan, Paris France (solo film projection)
EDUCATION
Master's degree (Master 2) in Documentary Film Direction at Université de Poitiers, CRÉADOC, Pôle Magélis, Angoulême, France.
Master's degree (D.E.A.) in Japanese Language and Culture at Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris, France. With scholarship period at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 東京外国語大学, Japan.
Bachelor's degree in History at Université Sorbonne - Paris IV, France.
2023
Encruzilhadas Poéticas, xow.rumi/Capacete, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (group)
Glória#2 - encontro de águas barulhentas, xow.rumi/Capacete, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (group)
Glória#1, xow.rumi/Capacete, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (group)
3rd International Colloquium in Contemporary Philosophy and Culture of the Society for Philosophy as Global Conversation, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (group)
Tropigalpão: presente!, Tropigalpão, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (group)
2022
Alumbramento, xow.rumi/Capacete, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (group)
Grupo de pesquisa Eiras-Paracambi / Encontro #1, #2, #3, xow.rumi/Capacete, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (group)
Um dia a gente viveu junto, xow.rumi/Capacete, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (group)
Rebento, xow.rumi/Capacete, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (group)
2021
Fantaisies #1, Capacete, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (solo)
Fantaisies #1, La Centrale 22, Paris, France (solo)
Découdre des patrons #3, Pauline Perplexe, Arcueil, France (group)
Rio de ma fenêtre: journal pandémique en quatre temps, Capacete, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (solo)
2020
PAN #1, #2, #3, #4, #5 (group, online show)
2019
LEBABEL #6, Librairie portugaise et brésilienne, Paris, France (group)
Home and Journey around the Globe, 2nd International Colloquium in Contemporary Philosophy and Culture of the Society for Philosophy as Global Conversation, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (group)
2018
Union des poètes et des boulangers / Atelier « Pain en chantier », Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (group)
2017
Thérapoètes, Nuit Blanche, Paris, France (group)
2016
Silence Project, l'Etna, Paris, France (solo film projection)
2013
Yamanaka Sadao, l'atérité en face, Festival de l'histoire de l'art, Fontainebleau, France (solo film projection)
2012
"Art & Caméra" Award winning, Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art (INHA, France), for a film project about Japanese Film Director Sadao Yamanaka (1909-1938)
> presentation at Tokyo University (Japan)
2011
Cellules, l'Etna, Paris, France (solo film projection)
2009
America's Game, La Société de Curiosités, Paris, France (solo film projection)
2008
Reliefs, Ateliers Varan, Paris France (solo film projection)
EDUCATION
Master's degree (Master 2) in Documentary Film Direction at Université de Poitiers, CRÉADOC, Pôle Magélis, Angoulême, France.
Master's degree (D.E.A.) in Japanese Language and Culture at Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris, France. With scholarship period at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 東京外国語大学, Japan.
Bachelor's degree in History at Université Sorbonne - Paris IV, France.