Tbilissi, Freedom Square Underground
August 17th, 2011
Tbilisi, Georgia, Freedom Square Underground 05/2011
Show Off
October 19th, 2010Presenting works during SHOW OFF, Solo Show Art Fair of Paris, October 21 – 24, 2010, stand B12 Boucaud Fine Arts. Welcome: http://showoffparis.fr
Prints by Andrès Romero / L’Oeil complice: http://www.oeilcomplice.fr
Show off 2010
Port des Champs Elysées
Pont Alexandre III
75008 Paris
Opening-Preview : October 20, 14:00 – 18:00
3 lines to Frisco / Ploumoguer – Bretagne. 2010. Satori Kerouac Series
Piste d’In Azzaoua. Km 100. Algérie. 2009
Artisterium
September 28th, 2010Presentation of the Installation photo/video “New Saharan Frontier” at the Georgian National Museum Karvasla, Tbilissi, Géorgie, during Artsiterium, 3rd Tbilisi International Contemporary Art Exhibition and Art Events, 2-10/10/2010
5 B&W gelatin silver print 40×50 cm and a video
As Western world tries to break frontiers it also invents new walls everywhere. Between regions, communities, fields of knowledge. In the Sahara, Algerian youth, Malian clandestinos, Nigerian tuaregs feel in their everydaylife the consequences of our policies. The great desert, the tuaregs, suffers from those borders un-natural in a nomadic area and way of life. The only ways to escape this harsh reality are festivals celebrating their guitar heroes, the « ishumar », such as Tinariwen band.
More about Artisterium: www.artisterium.org
Slideluck Potshow Paris
June 18th, 2010
My photographic series about Saharan Youth and their rock festivals has been selected and will be presented during the first edition of the Slideluck Potshow Paris, 23/06/2010. SLPS operates multimedia slideshows combined with potluck dinners in about forty cities around the world. For each event, artists submit up to five minutes worth of images and guests bring along delicious food to share. Welcome !
More +++ www.slideluckpotshow.com
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Saharan pictures travel in Italy
June 11th, 2010
I’ll present pictures and videos during the 4th Free International Forum “In Difesa della Natura”, Bolognano, Italy, 1/2 july 2010. Man & Nature video art show.
© Arnaud Contreras / www.arnaudcontreras.com
Sahara Rocks !
May 30th, 2010
With some friends, we’re happy to invite you to Sahara Rocks! Festival. Two days of concerts, lectures, films, around contemporary saharan youth culture. 29-30/05/2010
More: www.sahararocks.com
© Arnaud Contreras / www.arnaudcontreras.com
3 lines to Frisco
May 29th, 2010No planes in the Brittany sky this week because of this ash cloud from Iceland.
Just those electrics lines, 3 lines perhaps going to San Francisco.
Wish I could walk on them to go and buy old beats poems in City Lights bookstore.
Kerouac Foggy Road
May 29th, 2010Back from Brittany, enjoyed the sahelian atmosphere in the Monts d’Arrée desert, enjoyed to talk about Kerouac with a Balkanic brass band in Brest, enjoyed this foggy road at the end of the trip in Ploumoguer
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Back in Kervoac
May 28th, 2010Back in Kervoac, Lanmeur, Brittany. 05/2010
Jack from Saint Brieuk !
May 28th, 2010
When Jack Kerouac arrived by train in Saint Brieuc, Brittany, he argued with the railway station master, telling him that the name of this town is “Saint Brieuk” and not “Saint Brieuc”. As I was in this place, I asked to meet the new station master… and his name was … Jack, fan of the Celtics.
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