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Venue:
feigen + dart
Westwerk
Karl-Heine-Str. 85-93
04229 Leipzig


The exhibition "Sandburgen" consists of two mixed media installations: "Le Signal" and "We are inside ... they are outside ... we come from outside ... they come from inside". Laurette Le Gall questions and questions the relationship between people and places: how do places influence our identity? Do we belong to places? Do the places belong to us? How can one grasp this mutual influence?

"Le Signal" is the name of a building that forms the starting point of the work of the same name. In 1967 it was built in Soulac-sur-mer as close to the sea as a sandcastle. In 2014, the residents had to leave the building and thus their home on the orders of the city of Soulac-sur-mer, as the rise in sea level predicted and the building was classified as a collapse. Since then, the city's inhabitants have been fighting for justice. Was the name of the building a sign?
In the sound installation "We are inside ... they are outside ... we come from outside ... they come from inside" eight persons seem to be in a common place. Voices sound from pipes ... They all come from somewhere else and ask themselves about this transitional situation: will they stay or leave; What are you doing here? By searching for the day, they finally find themselves in the dark. They ask themselves questions, they talk about the bush, they repeat themselves and start all over again ... They talk to each other and above all to themselves. With a rather direct style, which tends to the absurd, the narration develops out of fragments from dialogues, personal reflections and memories.