WORKS | Visual & Performing Artworks by Ann Papoulis

Exhibitions

Musée Blanche Hoschedé-Monet
Vernon, France 4 April - 18 May 2025

Bateau Daphné on the Seine below Notre Dame
Quai Montebello, Paris 19 September 2023

Shorts

Thoughts

Ljubljana 2003
4 minutes

Antigone

Maison de la Culture, Grenoble 2004
4 minutes

Believe

Paris 2013
5 minutes

physical opera emerges directly out of the singing, dancing, speaking, thinking, feeling body

Physical Opera

LANDSCAPE: mind variations

director, composer & choreographer ANN PAPOULIS
musical arranger BOJANA ŠALJIĆ PODEŠVA
conductor MARKO GAŠPERŠIČ
stage & costumes KIRSTEN DEPHOFF
film JASNA HRIBERNIK
rehearsal director MATEJA REBOLJ

actor JERNEJ ŠUGMAN
mezzo soprano MIRJAM KALIN
baritone JOŽE VIDIC

commissioned by National House of Opera & Ballet, Ljubljana
Coproduction TV Slovenia March 2003

Excerpts

Cinematic Choreography

EXCERPTS

Seine River 49ºN 1,88ºE l’île verte

Seine from Twilight to Twilight
one minute excerpt of a 19 minute film

Entre Deux
one minute excerpt of a 15 minute film

Seine Musings, aquatic echoes of the imagination
two minute excerpt of a 17 minute film

Seine River 49ºN 1,50ºE Vernon

les âmes de la Seine à Vernon
one minute excerpt of a 7 minute film

Paintings

dances with pigment, oil, turpentine — on canvas, canvas board & paper

Over the centuries, the Seine in and around Vernon witnessed political and religious intrigue, wars, resistance.
The spirits of the Impressionists stretch eastward from Le Vieux Moulin in Vernon towards Giverny
and westward through the forest moving in the direction of the ocean.
The energy of Vernon’s long history emanates from her fluvial currents,
strangely evoking a sensation of earth, of fluid roots
extending deep into the ground.

Seine River 49º N 1,88º E

Seine River 49º N 1,50º E

The history of the river around l’île verte, 40km east of Vernon, is less dense,
the animal life more wild, the waters more pristine.

SkyWaters

Seine River 49º N 1,88º E

SkyWater photographs portray fluvial moods that echo enclaves of our inner world.
From the same vantage point, at different hours, weathers, seasons, I captured a split second of the movements of the river
and a few moments later the slower movements of the sky above it.
I then brought the water into direct contact with the sky reflected on it to open up the horizon’s lavish possibilities.