Last Year at Marienbad

Authors’ Comment

“L'Année dernière à Malmaison" is a subjective foray into Malmaison's timeframes, connecting its juxtaposing histories not only with the history of culture, but also with our own sensibilities (including those of the visitors) and overlapping (art&hi-)stories.
With an assumed subjectivity of the choices, of the way we look through the themes, of the feeling of reopening the stories of place(s) where we choose to live/produce/expose, their intersections with what we've lived through and with the multiple temporalities (re)opened in the present.
The title makes a reference to the movie "L'Année dernière à Marienbad" (Alain Resnais, 1961), to its long-continuous-fluid film takes (similar also to the long corridors at Malmaison), to its ambiguous/ labyrinthine narrative structure in which time and space can't help but flow, to its multiple intersections of narratives (similar to our curatorial exploration/ approach). On the other hand, the title also refers to the transitional moment of the year 2021, when the Malmaison building became host to the new artistic community - Malmaison Studios.