For half a century, Aquitaine and Quebec have had a political will for cooperation and the sharing of skills in various fields, including that of culture.

Since 2003, Zébra3 has built a lasting relationship with Quebec through the establishment of creative residencies.

In 2011-2012, the   Clark Art Center and the Zébra3 association have set up cross-cultural exchanges between Bordeaux and Montreal. These exchanges, renewed in 2014, will give rise to the co-production of two creative residencies and two exhibitions.

Julie Chaffort , video artist from Bordeaux, was selected to carry out an 8-week creative residency at the Center Clark in Montreal, at the end of which she presents the video installation Jour Blanc that she produced during her stay.

Graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux in 2006, Julie Chaffort devoted herself to filmmaking from the end of her studies. She wrote, directed, produced, edited and broadcast Some Sunny Days and Wild is the Wind , two feature films, before following and obtaining in 2010 the Werner Herzog's Rogue Film School Diploma in New York. She then worked with director Roy Andersson in Stockholm, then was selected as a filmmaker at the Center International d'Art et du Paysage on the island of Vassivière where she directed her new film Hot-Dog. His work, oriented towards cinema, also includes a plastic dimension where installations and performances are mixed. His latest work BANG! , is a monumental installation made up of around thirty pianos collapsed on top of each other, a spectacular scene of desolation, almost burlesque.

Julie Chaffort's installation Jour Blanc features 3 videos; the first with black smoke that invades the landscape until the forest completely disappears from the screen, the second with a lyrical singer, a flamenco dancer and an old lady who struggle in the face of a strong wind and persist to counter it. The third video features a vinyl turntable that plays the sound of howling wolves in several uninhabited landscapes, like a memory of the wild, of the living.

Jour Blanc was thought of as an indistinct memory while trying to find the vanished landscape, misty and like a blindness: to be dazzled by the light which gradually spreads possession of the landscape.

The artist chose to name his installation “White Day” in reference to the poem of the same title by Asei Tarkovsky, echoing childhood, memories.

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www.juliechaffort.com