This summer, silent green presents Breathing Matter(s), a major retrospective of the artists Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, tracing the duo’s artistic development and presenting their most important works.

Few artists have so radically renewed the cinematic experience in recent years: Their visually powerful works formally, aesthetically and programmatically transcend the boundaries between anthropology, documentary film and visual art and question traditional, anthropocentric orders of representation and visibility. 

Cinematic immersion, a strong focus on sensory and physical perception, and a deep engagement with lived experience are at the very heart of their work - whether it be the bloody daily grind of deep-sea fishing, the repulsive fantasies of a cannibal, the surreal dreamscapes of a sleeptalker, or the sublime visions of the pulsating interior of the human body. 

A programme of artist talks, and film screenings offers further perspectives on the themes of the exhibition. 

The solo exhibition Breathing Matter(s) – Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor is a project of silent green Film Feld Forschung gGmbH. Funded by the LOTTO-Stiftung Berlin.