Leila Zelli, Ciel et ballon, 2019, animated video, color, sound, 1 min 30 s
Source : UNHCR, ajoutée le 13 juin 2014, Syrian Refugee Girls’ Football Team , 2 min 14 s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8ZY60wIDz4, extract of 5 s.
Sound : https://freesound.org/s/371377/
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First shown
in the exhibition Leila Zelli : Terrain de jeux (2019) at Galerie de l'UQÀM,
- Exhibited at the Foire d'art actuel de Québec, curated by Florence-Agathe Dubé-Moreau, Chapelle des Jésuites, Québec, June 30 to May 2
- Presented at En bonne compagnie, invited by Sophie Jodoin, Galerie Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal, July 11 to August 22
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Collection of the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec
Ciel et ballon is taken from a report produced by the United Nations High Commission in 2014. A twelve-year-old Syrian refugee talks about her new passion for soccer, a sport she discovered at the Zaatari camp in Jordan.
By altering the framing and producing an off-screen effect by adding the sound of children playing, the artist creates a familiar imaginary space in which our relationship to the Other through media images, as well as the relationship between war and imposed religion, are questioned.
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View of the installation at the Leila Zelli exhibition Playground, 2019, Galerie de l'UQAM, Montreal
Photo : La Galerie de l’UQÀM