© JOHAN GRIMONPREZ

15th Art Division Jury Selections

I MAY HAVE LOST FOREVER MY UMBRELLA

Video work

Johan GRIMONPREZ

Outline

The footage used in this video was shot with an iPhone recapturing images found on YouTube. The project quoted from the work of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa, called The Book of Disquiet, but aimed to erase the author’s existence and present alternative personas. Pessoa himself used different names depending on the kind of works he created, and the complex structure of the video imagery was intended to express his various personas. This work arose from an art project that was intended to create collaborative works by artists working in different genres.