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Stéphanie Roland

History

Stéphanie Roland is a belgian / micronesian visual artist and filmmaker who studied media arts at the ENSAV - La Cambre (Brussels) and at UDK - Universität der Künste (Berlin), in Hito Steyerl and Thomas Arslan’s class. She regularly gives talks about her practice; among others, she was TEDx Brussels speaker in 2018. She's now artist at Le Fresnoy - Studio National des Arts Contemporains, producing new projects. Her work is regularly shown at international level. Her projects have been included in exhibitions from major institutions including Louvre Museum (FR), Benaki Museum (GR), Botanique (BE), Kampala International Art Biennale (UG), Bozar (BE) and Wiels (BE). Breda Photo (NL), Belfast Photo festival (IE), Manifesto (FR), Encontros da Imagem (PO), BIP Liège (BE), MOPLA (US), Unseen (NL) and Rencontres Internationales Paris / Berlin are amongst the festivals dedicated to Photography and Films in which she took part. In 2017, she was selected in the group exhibition of the Antarctica Pavilion for the 57th Venice Biennale. She won an impressive number of prizes and grants, notably the grant of the Vocatio foundation, the Médiatine award and the Full Contact award at the SCAN Tarragona international festival of photography. She was shortlisted for the HSBC Photography Award, the Leica Oskar Barnack Award, the Vevey International Photography Award, the Salomon foundation award, BMW Residency Award and the Prix Jeunes artistes of Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles.

Movies

The Empty Sphere

The Empty Sphere

Director

Between the dazzling first shot—burning debris falling from a satellite entering the atmosphere—and the final sequence merging underwater images with others generated by a specially created camera, a path is sketched out which, in the manner of a reverse science-fiction journey, leads from space exploration to a cemetery in the middle of the ocean.

La plasticienne

Alex and Noémie would like to have a child. But their plans are turned upside down when Alex's mother, Suzanne, has contracted "semantic dementia", a fatal neurodegenerative disease that affects her behavior.

Nina and the Robots

Nina and the Robots

Catering

The breath of the machine fills the air, where the singing can flow. Nina stands in front of the wiggling robot. The soft bodies measure up themselves, sometimes harmonize. The breaths dilate the organs, which swell and fold; transmute the synthetic movement into vital impetus and the vulva into mouth, which inflates until it spreads.

Writer

Podesta Island exists according to Google Earth. Podesta Island does not exist according to Wikipedia. Does it really exist? In a hyperconnected and mapped world, are there still unknown areas? The film Podesta Island paints the portrait of a controversial phantom island by confronting documentary sources with the narratives and legends inspired by this island. This exploration, where satellite imagery and live action intertwine, brings us closer to Terra Incognita and celebrates the imaginary geography.

Director

Podesta Island exists according to Google Earth. Podesta Island does not exist according to Wikipedia. Does it really exist? In a hyperconnected and mapped world, are there still unknown areas? The film Podesta Island paints the portrait of a controversial phantom island by confronting documentary sources with the narratives and legends inspired by this island. This exploration, where satellite imagery and live action intertwine, brings us closer to Terra Incognita and celebrates the imaginary geography.