La Frontière
France
2020
In 1932, aged 10, Nathalie Déposé’s grandfather fled Spain and poverty and crossed the French border (frontière in French)
alone. A few years later in France, he met the one who would later become the artist’s grandmother. After her grandfather’s death, Nathalie Déposé realised that no two people had the same version regarding his itinerary.
Faced with the frailness of memory, she decided to gather the elements she had at her disposal to tell the story before it disappeared altogether. She travelled his itinerary, searched and studied the various layers of his memory from the photographs of the border that he had preciously kept, as well as two videos that she herself had filmed twenty years earlier. Over this border, a fragile strip between reality and the imaginary, she traced back an intimate story rooted in collective memory.
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About the artist
Nathalie Déposé lives and works in Paris. Before making her first series in 2011, she studied modern literature and cinema and worked as assistant director alongside Alain Resnais, Bertrand Bonello and the Larrieu brothers. She obtained the MAP festival grant in 2017 and the Bourse du Talent in 2018. A substantial part of her work is dedicated to memory.