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Georges Seurat's afternoon at the movies

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Georges Seurat's afternoon at the movies, an homage to both John Hughes on Ferris Bueller's Day Off 30th anniversary and Georges Seurat on Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte exhibition's 130th anniversary. This project resorts to shots of the museum scene from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, which shows the contact of Cameron, one of the characters in the film, with the canvas by Seurat. Hughes’s beautiful rendering of this contact is subjected to a new edition, in which the shots are alternately presented in their original sequence and in inverse order in a continuous loop. The original scene’s context, where the Cameron character is defined through his identification with a girl represented in the painting, is absent in Georges Seurat's afternoon at the movies. The project addresses in this manner the abstract and dynamic contact of the public with the work of art. It addresses the search for meaning and simultaneous loss of meaning in the perceptual swing between the resolution of the sensorial conflicts present in the detail – a primary trait of juxtaposition as a formal strategy – and, on the other hand, new reality arising from the aggregate.


Georges Seurat's afternoon at the movies
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