The films of Guillaume Dustan (2000-2004)
- Guillaume Dustan
The exhibition is curated by Julien Laugier, Pascaline Morincôme, Olga Rozenblum
« This book will not have any success, that is more than clear, I get off on it bad, Hare Krishna ! Yes, because I’ve always had a weakness for the midpoint between creation and destruction, I protect. And now I want to be old and sick, even older and sicker, with my own Little Swiss, we’ll have chickens, donkeys, turkeys, lambs, piglets that we’ll sell, and little calves, and they’ll all have a strange name like “Gruyère”. And I’ll cry all the time as I know how to do so well when I’m sick. »
These are the last lines of the book Dernier Roman (2004) by Guillaume Dustan. It’s also where the exhibition begins, a place that reconnects his films to his writings.
Between 2000 and 2004, the French writer Guillaume Dustan made 19 films with a lightweight DV camera. These films make up a part of his oeuvre that is little-known to date. The exhibition on the films in Friart Kunsthalle will shed new light on a key figure in French literature and queer culture at the turn of the millennium. Texts and archives accompany the films and help to situate them in a constellation of concrete and imaginary historical affinities with friends, artists, theorists, musicians and other allies of Dustan’s artistic and political project.
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