Fikret Atay frames us in the fascination of the jeans culture, of folk dance, and military parade. We watch a preparatory rehersal for a kurdish traditionnal dance competition.

It is the idea of the letting go of certainties, of « mise-en-abîme »- it is the art of the passage.įilmed in the area of Batman, the city where the artist lives, this video work examines in the most direct and subtle way the notion of discipline and collective expression which can gather and direct groups of people through a sought ideal. Moving frontiers, redrawn ones, adopted for the sake of a necessity. They all have an existential attitude towards geography: Five artists gather around this notion, each one giving his own personal version of the theme: Fikret Atay, Jean-Luc Moulène, Melik Ohanian, De Rijke / De Rooij, Susanne Bürner. GEOGRAPHIES # 3 comes naturally after GEOGRAPHIES #2, a year later.

C’est l’idée de l’abandon d’une certitude, de la mise en abîme - c’est l’art du passage. Leur rapport à la géographie est celui d’une attitude existentielle: celle des frontières mouvantes, retracées, adoptées le temps d’une nécessité.

Cinq artistes se réunissent autour de cette notion et en donnent chacun leur version: Fikret Atay, Jean-Luc Moulène, Mélik Ohanian, De Rijke/De Rooij, Susanne Bürner. Un an plus tard, «Geographies # 3» s’enchaîne naturellement après «Geographies # 2». Curated by : Chantal Crousel Artwork : You are mY destinY (2003)

Naturellement film 2002