Isabelle Dehay
Casa de Velázquez - Hangar Exchange Grant
January - April 2018
Isabelle Dehay, France 1971
Graduate of the ESABANM – the School of Fine Arts Nantes, Isabelle Dehay proposes connections and links between cinema and the digital arts. She has realized several short films in 16 mm, video as well as multimedia installations and performances in collaboration with contemporary musicians and composers.
Every landscape is a testament to its past, it eternally continues to confirm and reflect the tangible identity of the observer. A mirror of humanity, the environment spells out and becomes a quasi partition, which during the days is played out, while it continues in its act of composition.
With an analogical reading and through a measured selection, which operates by interpretation, appropriation and memorization, the landscape becomes poetic, it transformations into a mental image.
Fragmented, sorted, purified, always immersive, Isabelle Dehay’s video installations incite a mental landscape of experience. They situate us in front of an entropy revealed by a cinematographic temporality, before emotions that emerge from a sensitive relation to the world.
