Le Fresnoy – National Studio of Contemporary Arts
The Louis Roederer Foundation has teamed up with Le Fresnoy – Studio national, one of the world’s leading institutions for artistic, audiovisual and digital training, production and distribution, to launch an original Carte Blanche project encouraging students to explore the confluence of art and science.
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Art & Science Carte Blanche project
Through support and professional technical resources, at Le Fresnoy – Studio national, students from all over the world can create innovative works by facilitating partnerships with universities, laboratories and specialist companies.
Sharing the same determination to support bold and unique creativity, the Louis Roederer Foundation and Le Fresnoy launched an Art & Science Carte Blanche project. It is aimed at 1st and 2nd year audiovisual students who wish to put the sciences, human or natural, at the heart of their study project.
The winning audiovisual work is shown at the OVNi International Video Art Festival at the Fondation Maeght (Saint-Paul-de-Vence), followed by a special evening at the Jeu de Paume cinema in Paris.
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Alexandre Cornet, 2024 winner
For its first year, the Art & Science Carte Blanche was won by Alexandre Cornet, a 2nd year student, for his audiovisual work Saltation. In 1962, after Algeria won its independence, Alexandre Cornet’s family left the country for the first time since settling there at the beginning of the colonial period. Sixty years later, after several attempts at dialogue with his father, he realises that the unspoken truths about the colonial occupation are also to be found in his family. To examine the erosion of these unspoken memories on and understand their founding principles, Alexandre Cornet looks for traces of them elsewhere.
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