Je veux ce que je veux

Dipoi l’anni 1970, prupone un’opera intensa,  chì porta ugetti industriali è fiure in mossa in listessu universu infiaratu

Born in 1952 in Minerviu, Ange Leccia encountered creation in his youth through darkened movie theaters and the art section of the Bastia high school.

Since the 1970s, he has been offering a vibrant body of work where industrial objects and moving images are carried by the same incandescence. Cinema is often reduced to the essential, namely the technical condition of its existence - light. This is the heroine of his videos as much as his arrangements. It is the silent vector of his raw sensitivity, passionately observing his surroundings. It is the receptacle of the sensations that the audience feels in front of these decidedly contemporary creations that still capture the pulse of the world in a form of simplicity.

For his first monographic exhibition at the FRAC Corsica, I Want What I Want follows the path of a retrospective to sketch out offbeat paths.

Ùn hè mai robba immobile u ricordu.  À u cuntrariu, hè un arnese mudifichevule chì palpitteghja ad ogni evucazione, e maghjine furmendu u quatru materiale chì u face spuntà.   

The journey indeed associates a single historical work with recent productions and a new assembly in order to create a mnemonic thread where memory is far from being an inert object. It is rather a ductile material that trembles at each evocation as images form the material context of its appearance. This is because reminiscence is an ongoing act, a process without end. “I Want What I Want” thus uncovers the nostalgia that is too often attributed to the act of remembering to emphasize that the past is primarily a potentiality – that of feeling the feverish exaltation of existence in its entirety.

Curating by Fabien Danesi

ADAGP Paris 2023