With this work, Idil Kem seeks to recreate the decor and the works presented during one of the scenes of Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen) at the home of Gertrude Stein (poetess, writer, playwright and American feminist).

 

The representative of the present time- Gill- during his visit to Stein with E. Hemingway meets his hostess talking with Picasso about his latest work The Bather. The walls of the hall are covered with works by modernist artists such as Cezanne, Picasso and Matisse.

 

The artist Idil.ist reinterprets her works, painted by artists of the time, to revive the apartment of Gertrude Stein.

 

Among the exhibited works, one will recognize in particular the poster of the Andalusian Dog, surrealist classic of Luis Bunel and Salvador Dali (1929), or the portrait of G. Stein.

 

The artist also exhibits her series of nudes Blue. Blue is here a ubiquitous color, the color of Mare Nostrum. This chromatic choice allows the artist to reinterpret the past and transpose lines into landscape.

 

"As a spectator when we enter this scene / space installation, we are the protagonist, the representative of the present in the past with an approach of the future."