De haut en bas Extrait de la vidéo Aphrodite, 2009 Extrait de la vidéo as nowhere, 2000 Extrait de la vidéo Chimères, 2010 Extrait de la vidéo Entretien dans la montagne, 2010 Extrait de la vidéo Le petit tambour, 2010 Extrait de la vidéo Séparation, 2001

23 June - 29 August 2010 Designed specially for the interior of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Holger Trülzsch's installation is made up of seven previously unseen videos, as well as photographs and painted Polaroids. As an introduction, the artist offers this quote from Rainer Maria Rilke's novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge: "I prayed to get my childhood back, and it came back, and I sense that it is still as hard as before, and that getting old has done me no good at all". Born in Munich in 1939, Holger Trülzsch is a sculptor, a musician, a painter, a photographer and a video maker. In 1969, along with Florian Fricke, he founded the experimental music group Popol Vuh. In 1984, he co-founded the DATAR, a state-funded photography project to record the landscapes of France. Video 1: Conversation on the Mountain (Gespräch im Gebirge), 2010 The shadows of walkers in the landscape, mine and yours, the movement of my hand / video follows their footsteps, recording the immediate memory of what I look at on the LCD monitor. The words fall silent, I concentrate on the rhythm of the footsteps - listening - feeling - seeing. And then I rethink this walking, I compose images with those of the video, with landscapes from my drawings and paintings, keeping in mind Paul Celan's Conversation on the Mountain. Video 2: The Little Drummerboy (Der kleine Trommler), 2nd version, 2010 - The memory of this keen childhood desire (Sehnsucht) to run away to sea in my sailor suit. Wearing only a sailor's shirt that was too short, naked like in my childhood nightmares, I walk along the railway and sing, beating out a child's military march on my little tin drum, this tune from a dark age: I'm a soldier Fallera I've got a moustache Fallera I've got a sword, a little sword I am Holgele, the little Holger, I am Holgele the little kid - And expressions of the grotesque: My face made up like the famous clown Grock of my childhood, this troublingly ambiguous character, both a comic and a Nazi sympathiser. My grimacing face calling out to the audience, repeating the word Kunst (Art) in a hoarse voice. Video 3: Separation, 2001 " Reconciling oneself to death " as Montaigne calls it, or trying to represent the unimaginable, the incomprehensible, the non-transmissible, the atemporal, by practising the experience of death, by simulating this separation from life. Vidéo 4 : as nowhere, 2000 On the road, shadows of a mountain landscape, their bluish light, snow and ice. Et in Arcadia ego: you, the viewer, are the shepherd in this cold, clinical contemporary Arcadia. Video 5: Gesualdo's Swing (Gesualdos Schaukel), 2001 Don Carlos Gesualdo (1566-1613), prince of Venosa, was a lute player, a brilliant composer, and a bloodthirsty murderer who murdered his wife and her lover. According to legend, after he killed them Gesualdo threw their bodies onto to steps of his palace and paid a monk to publicly violate his wife's corpse. It is also said that Gesualdo, in his delirious vengeful rage, thinking he could see the features of the lover in his infant son, placed the child in a cradle, had it hung on silk ropes from the highest ceiling in the castle, and ordered it to be swung violently until the child was smothered to death. Video 6 Chimera, 2010 Invocations of beloved or dreamed-of people, of hybrids between imagination and experience, past and present, which appear, superimpose themselves, and blend together. Video 7 Aphrodite, 2009 When the last rays of the sun set the waves ablaze, a hybrid creature appears, its dual outline made of superimpositions and imbrications; it extracts itself from itself, haloed in bright light in the form of a woman, amid the gurgling water and the sound of breathing, she rises from the water and walks towards us.