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L'Atelier

L'Atelier
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    • The Studio
    • L'Atelier
  • 1978
  • film, b&w, sound
  • 17min, 46sec
Geta Brătescu wrote the script for “The Studio,” her first filmed, large-scale performance, in 1977; the work was then realized in 1978, once again before Ion Grigorescu’s camera. This film functions as a self-referential story that uses “coupes mobiles” (“movable cuts”) to examine and process the psychological and physical environment of the artist while making reference to a symbolic or even ideological relationship with the camera. The camera, referred to in the script as “the eye,” penetrates the “universe” of the artist (the studio) and surveys it in a voyeuristic manner. For Brătescu, the studio is a place where the self can be defined anew, the space in which the artist can freely profess her enthusiasm for the playful, the stage upon which ideas are brought to life and where performative gestures represent alternatives to everyday life. At the studio, the subjective gestures of the artist blend together with the location and the exhibition context. Most of the artist’s works were produced at her studio, where they also received their first—and sometimes only—presentation. S.E.