Marine Hugonnier
Les Actualités (Week of March 31st to April 6th, 2008), 2008Newspaper cutouts and collages60 × 5 cm ( 23 5⁄8 × 1 31⁄32 inches )
Lés Actualités is constituted of a collection of news images taken from the press over the course of a week. This is the artist's daily mind rest. She chooses an image every day and makes a corresponding collage once the studio is closed. This diaristic record forms a narrative in which documentary images are unified by their abstract companions. The work's title, implying something actual or present, is used paradoxically, as the images are anachronistic. The title of this work is used in remembrance of pre and post-war 16 mm French news films.
