Anne-Charlotte Finel is a French contemporary artist who primarily works with video. Characterised by their nearly black-and-white and grainy aesthetic, Finel's films inhabit the thresholds between opposing poles such as fiction and reality, and dark and light.
Read MoreIn Triste Champignonniste (Sad Mushroom Farmer) (2017), presented at Taipei Biennial 2020, Anne-Charlotte Finel films a mushroom farm located in a former underground gypsum quarry. Due to the spread of a disease, the farm is abandoned. As art critic Clara Darrasson points out, 'The digital noise by Low-Light filming strangely activates and belies the stillness of the image. Actual rotting and decaying elements become intertwined with the deteriorating pixels in a metaphorical decomposition of the image.' Finel's work contemplates a large part of life activity that happens under our feet. For example, intertwined with the roots of the trees are fungi composed of a fascinating network of mycelium.
Text courtesy Taipei Fine Arts Museum and Ocula
