Il n'y aura pas d'étoiles filantes by BASIM MAGDY

Companion book to Basim Madgy's eponymous video: a dreamlike tale about the ocean and its secrets.

The film No Shooting Stars by Basim Magdy is built around the personal narrative of an unidentified inhabitant of the ocean space, a territory that lays dormant on the margins of our awareness and does not enter history books. Dream-like scenes drift in dissonance with a narration that has no beginning or end. It unfolds like a poem that is affected by the ocean's secrets but offers no explanation about who is living under the water's surface, instead meandering through loops of imagination. The image of who exactly the narrator is slips away as soon as it takes shape, reflecting the logic of the unstable grounds of water space.

Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at Jeu de Paume, Paris, from October 18, 2016, to January 15, 2017, and at CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, from November 17, 2016, to January 29, 2017.

published by the Jeu de Paume, Paris, and the CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux
2016, bilingual edition (English / French), 64 pages, 15 x 21 cm