AGATHE SIMON
The Conti Archives
2014
Installation
Variable Dimensions
© Agathe Simon
The installation The Conti Archives is one of the works of The Conti Project. It pays tribute to Gabriela Conti (1974-2010), the famous French-Argentine writer. It looks like a Curiosity Cabinet. It features four videos, two sound installations and 120 objects and documents from the late nineteenth century to today: photographs, letters and telegrams from the 1930s, Argentinian identity documents, a polar suit, manuscripts, books and notebooks, records, and archive film.
The Conti Project is an immersive multimedia cycle in homage to the famous French-Argentine novelist Gabriela Conti (1974-2010) – who does not exist. Since 2013, with the support of various institutional partners, Agathe Simon has been unfolding the Gabriela Conti fiction through solo and collective performances, a documentary directed in Antarctica, a video triptych filmed in the Arctic, an installation of 120 archives and documents, novels and travel stories, film photographs, a radio play on France Culture and two 5.1 sound installations.