Renée’s Room

“This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence – even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!” quote from Frederick Nietzsche’s The Gay Science: the Greatest Weight, Book IV (page 273) translation by Walter Kaufmann

Basma Alsharif invites you to a room created for a fictive character, Renée. 

A dark room. A white carpet. One tape player. Two monitors : the first one reflects your presence; the other reflects Renee’s world. All the elements create ephemeral intersections that function as a loop where the room breathes in the absence of its lodger. Alternating between darkness and light, from silence to sound, renewal and repetition are enacted.

Born in Kuwait, raised between the US and Palestine, Basma Alsharif works her singular experience of nomadism and a deep interest in the Human Condition. She works with cinema and installation.

« This installation is an invitation inside of Renee’s room. The only request she has is for you to remove your shoes before entering ». Basma Alsharif

Basma Alsharif is a resident artist at the Pavillon Neuflize OBC.

Curator: Fabien Danesi