Christophe Gallois

 

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The Space of Words

ThePolitics of Landscape

Dominique Petitgand

Dominique Petitgand

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A Different Sound in Each Ear: Stories of temporalities in the work of Dominique Petitgand

 

Maison Décartes, Amsterdam

Organised in collaboration with Motive Gallery, Amsterdam

April 20, 2010

 

Ecole municipale des beaux-arts/Galerie Edouard Manet, Gennevilliers, France

September 26, 2007

 

If Dominique Petitgand’s sound pieces and sound installations usually tell us something, they are also characterised by a specific relation to time: fragments, repetitions, silences, the superimposition of different narratives and different temporalities, the spatialisation of time are various figures around which his works unfold. What is also at stake in these temporal constructions is the importance played by the listening, thought of as a meeting point between the heterogeneous elements that consitute the work. In order to explore these aspects of Dominique Petitgand’s practice, this presentation will attempt to put it in dialogue with several works by American composer Steve Reich, including his early pieces It’s Gonna Rain (1965), Come Out (1966) and Pendulum Music (1968), which develop similar relations to time.