De haut en bas : Tuomo Rainio City, 2005, vidéo, 2'43 min © Tuomo Rainio Peter Aerschmann 5th Street, 2006, vidéo, 15 min © Peter Aerschmann, Courtesy Galerie Anne de Villepoix Gast Bouschet & Nadine Hilbert Dreamsequence, 2006-200, 8 min © Gast Bouschet & Nadine Hilbert et le Centre d'Art Nei Liicht Dudelange, Luxembourg Christoph Brech Break, 2004, vidéo, 8'12 min © Christoph Brech, Courtesy Samlung Goetz, Munich Olga Chernysheva Windows, 2007, 1 min multiscreen © Olga Chernysheva Ori Gersht Big Bang, vidéo, 2006, 5'25 min © Ori Gersht, Courtesy CRC Gallery New York / Mummery + Schnelle Gallery London / Noga Gallery Tel Aviv / Angles Gallery Los Angeles Jutta Strohmaier Passenger, vidéo projection, 2004, 13.31 min © Jutta Strohmaier

5 November 2008 - 25 January 2009 Moving Stills is part of the European Month of Photography, which brings together festivals in Paris, Berlin, Bratislava, Luxembourg, Rome and Vienna. It is the second edition of Mutations, an event focusing on technological and artist change in photography, and offers a selection of videos made by European artists. A growing number of photographers are using video, and this is changing the specific criteria that define both crafts. Apart from the diversity of their aesthetic standpoints and of the visual techniques they use, the artists presented in Mutations II encourage us to step beyond the territorial considerations and academic definitions which tend to ring-fence artistic fields, and to explore the boundaries that separate them. In other words Mutations II invites us to discover new territory, investigating both fixed and moving images via the tensions that motivate them. Aesthetic tension between the instant and passing time is illustrated in the work of artists such as Peter Aeschermann and Tuomo Raino, who seek to imbue the photogra- phic image with temporal depth. Narrative tension between photography, video and sound sequences leads us into the disturbing dream world of Gast Bouchet and Nadine Hilbert, or into the theatricality of daily life in Russia as shown by Olga Chernysheva. Perceptive tension characteristic of transitory states of space and time can be experienced in the work of Ori Gersht, Christoph Brech and Jutta Strohmaier. What these European artists have in common is the way they submit photo- graphy and/or video to various forms of distortion. In this way they explore the lines of perspective that form at the boundaries of the two territories, setting up a new regime of image and perception. By the same token, they push the photographic and videographic idiom to its limits, and it is these very limits that constitute the necessary condition for the emergence of originality and of 'style' as defined by Deleuze. These new experiments in pushing pho- tography and video over the edge of their habitually assigned boundaries give us a unique opportunity to take a fresh look at the world and encourage us to re-invent our daily lives, seeing them 'according to the artwork', to quote Merleau-Ponty. Peter Aerschmann www.aerschmann.ch Born1969 in Fribourg, Switzerland. Lives and works in Bern. Graduate of the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, Bern. Gast Bouschet & Nadine Hilbert www.thetrusfiles.net Born 1958 in Dudelange / 1961 in Luxembourg. They live in Brussels and elsewhere. Christoph Brech www.christophbrech.com Born in Schweinfurt (Allemagne) in 1964. Lives and works in Munich. Studied at the Fine Art Acedemy in Munich (1989-1995). Olga Chernysheva www.olgachernysheva.ru Born 1962 in Moscow, where she lives and works. Graduate of the Moscow Film Academy (1986). and the Fine Art Academy, Amsterdam (1995-96). Took part in the 49th Venice Biennale with Second Life (Russian pavilion, 2001). Ori Gersht www.mummeryschnelle.com Born 1967 in Tel-Aviv, Israel. Lives and works in London. MA in photography, Royal College of Art, London (1993-95). Degree in photography, film and video, University of Westminster, London. Tuomo Rainio www.rainio.pp.fr Born 1983 in Espoo, Finland. Lives and works in Tokyo. Bachelor of Arts (photography), Helsinki University of Arts and Design. Currently preparing an MA. Studying at the Musashino Arts University, Tokyo. Jutta Strohmaier. www.jutta-strohmaier.net Born in Tulnn (Austria) in 1966. Lives and works in Vienna. Studied painting at the Vienna Fine Art Academy; specialised in photography and new media under Eva Schlegel (1996-1999). Alcatel-Lucent, major sponsor of the European Month of Photography, brought together an international jury to select the winner of the Alcatel-Lucent Prize from these seven artists. The jury chose Finnish artist Tuomo Rainio. Exhibition sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent (chief sponsor), Culturesfrance and Mairie de Paris. Catalogue: A catalogue is available, published by Café Crème, Luxembourg. For more information, see "Books and films/Books".