Exhibitions / Loop & Experimental film As long as it lasts

loop #35 — Léa Giordano (LU)
Photo 1: A wide view of the crowded room. The high ceiling reveals industrial ventilation ducts. On the right, the video projection is visible behind the bar.
Photo 2: A back view of a dense crowd at an art opening in a bar. In the background, a large black-and-white video projection shows a close-up of a kiss.
Photo 3: A wide view of the crowded room. The high ceiling reveals industrial ventilation ducts. On the right, the video projection is visible behind the bar.
Photo 1: A wide view of the crowded room. The high ceiling reveals industrial ventilation ducts. On the right, the video projection is visible behind the bar.
Photo 2: A back view of a dense crowd at an art opening in a bar. In the background, a large black-and-white video projection shows a close-up of a kiss.
© photo 1 & 2: Philippe Schroeder © photo 1 & 2: Philippe Schroeder

In its initial iteration, As Long As It Lasts was a Super 8 installation portraying eight couples kissing. It featured four simultaneous projections, looping and descending from the ceiling while traversing the space. 

For the 35th edition of the loop, Léa Giordano has specifically recontextualized the installation to fit Rotondes’ uniquely sized screen. Shot on 16mm film, this new version continues to explore the tension between emotional vulnerability and the physical nature of medium. While hand-developing the film, Léa physically engages with the images, staying close to the material and its meaning.

Contributing to the loop with the act of a never-ending kiss offers a gesture of care – a reminder that the venue and artistic home that is Rotondes stands for love above all. By presenting this work, Rotondes offers a gentle reminder that it is a place of equality, openness, and experimentation.

production : Rotondes

Léa Giordano

Léa Giordano (she/​her) is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Amsterdam and Luxembourg. After completing a bachelor’s degree in photography, she expanded her practice into experimental filmmaking at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. Her work moves between moving image and photography, using the materiality of analog film as both a metaphor and a medium to shape narratives.

Léa’s practice explores themes of longing, belonging, melancholia, nostalgia, abandonment, change, grief, acceptance, and the passage of time. Through a meditative engagement with nature and the tactile processes of analogue film, Léa creates intimate spaces where emotion, memory, and time come together.

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loop

Rotondes’ loop art cycle hosts uniquely sized video creations. Hanging right above the bar, a 200 x 700 cm screen area offers new creative possibilities and high-level exposure to guest artists.