Retroperspectives on the history of Villa Vassilieff around the exhibition “Teo Hernandez: Shatter appearances” (2019)
Since 2023, we have begun a case-by-case reading of its history by progressively opening up the paper and digital archives, seeking to open this exploration to all the “stakeholders” (title of a 2009 exhibition) directly or indirectly linked to each project. This time, we open the archives of the exhibition “Teo Hernandez: Shatter appearances” (2019) dedicated to the Mexican filmmaker with Andrea Ancira, curator of the exhibition. A contemporary of Maria Klonaris and Katerina Thomadaki, Teo Hernández’s “self-imposed” exile in France led him to focused on experimental film practice within the gay com¬mu¬nity and the Parisian counterculture in the late 1960s and 70s. Similar to shamanism, his work explores other ways of seeing, hearing, and ultimately other bodies that may provoke another way to feel, to re-create and to re-write the world.