Le bar du Crépuscule - Belsunce Projects (guests Martha Kirszenbaum)

CREEPUSCULE, a symbol closely linked to the idea of the West, the direction in which the sun declines, fades and dies. It expresses the end of a cycle and, consequently, the preparation of a new beginning. The great mythological feats that prelude a cosmic, social or moral revolution are accomplished during a journey to the West: Perseus trying to kill the Gorgon, Heracles overcoming the monster in the Garden of the Hesperides, Apollo taking flight among the Hyperboreans, etc. Twilight is a spatio-temporal image: a suspended moment. Space and time capsize in both the other world and the other night. But the death of one heralds the other: a new space and a new time will succeed the old. The march to the West is the march to the future, but through dark transformations. Beyond the night, we hope for new dawns. Twilight also symbolizes the nostalgic beauty of decline and the past. It is the image and the hour of melancholy and nostalgia. The twilight bar: a project, an atmosphere, a rendezvous, a project based on exchange, friendship and welcome.

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Project: Adieu Dolorès

Artistes : Lucile Littot & Markos Mazarakis-Ainian  

Instagram: @lucilexlittot @markoikarazami  

Lucile Littot and Markos Mazarakis-Ainian's experimental and sentimental baroque-pop duo Adieu Dolorès pays tribute to the mythical figures of cinema and literature, to flayed divas and disenchanted generations: The texts, written by Lucile Littot in open skies between Los Angeles, Mexico and Athens, are conceived as a collection of fantastical poetry, sublimated by Markos Mazarakis-Ainian's expressionist pop compositions. These pieces of music form the narrative skeleton of the project, which unfolds in different media such as performance, sculptural installation and video, in a maximalist style singular to Lucile Littot's artistic practice. Adieu Dolorès was notably invited to take up a residency at Villa Medici in December 2023. During their stay, they shot́ a video work entitled I am my own nightmare. Their first joint video work, entitled Conte du Cygne et Sept Autres Histoires Extraordinaires, was presented in the summer of 2022 in the gardens of the Château du Marais in Val Saint Germain.  

Lucile Littot

Lucile Littot is a French multidisciplinary artist born in Paris. She has exhibited at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Museo de Arte de Zapopan in Mexico, and La Fondation d'entreprise Ricard in Paris.  

Markos Mazarakis-Ainian

Markos Mazarakis-Ainian is a Greek musician and composer born in Athens. He is a member of the Greek psychedelic-rock band Acid Baby Jesus, formed in 2009. In parallel, he is developing a solo project under the pseudonym "Theremin Jennings".