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Hope, <\/em>a story of explorers & dream catchers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hope<\/em>, an incredible immersion in the heart of Uganda\u2019s lush nature, tells Valentine\u2019s encounter story with the Habinyanja family\u2019s gorillas. A film in a diary form.
A journey away from the cage sadness, where infinite landscapes, traditional rhythms and syncopated dances follow one another. And of course: Ivo. An allegory of Ivo, free, happy, and surrounded by his family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the past 4 years, Ivo became in turn Moroccan, South African, and Tanzanian through successive exhibitions. But with Hope<\/em>, La Maison Valmont takes its visitors much further. A step further in the impenetrable Bwindi Forest discovery; the only place in the world where the three great primates, mountain gorillas, chimpanzees, and humans, live together on the same territory. A step further in this country discovery and its often-unknown culture, through unique colours, landscapes, sounds and fabrics. Closer to its women, its men, and their traditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hope<\/em>, like a young girl\u2019s hope and desire for freedom. Hope<\/em>, like a father\u2019s desire to see the spark in her eyes that the gorilla in the cage was missing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hope<\/em>, the film exhibition at La Maison Valmont<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

First unveiled in Seoul during the Ivo in Tanzania <\/em>exhibition, Hope, <\/em>the movie, will be shown on  May 16th<\/sup>, 2023. Not in one place, but in a simultaneous exhibition at Les Maisons Valmont. From Berlin, Munich, Paris, Madrid, New York to Milan, Ivo will be screened freely on every side of the globe. Hope<\/em>, an emotional short film, tells the moving story of a 17-year-old girl, Valentine Guillon, travelling to Uganda to meet the gorilla in its natural habitat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ivo, an angular gorilla met a few years ago during a visit to the Berlin Zoo. Ivo, who was a source of both wonder and emotion for Valentine during a father-daughter trip in 2018. A young girl\u2019s wish came from this Berlin visit to see the elegant animal released from captivity. A father\u2019s desire to imagine the impossible to make him live beyond all cages. In this, Hope <\/em>transforms Ivo\u2019s freedom, and her message goes far beyond Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Berlin\u2019s cramped cage to the impenetrable Bwindi Forest, Ivo returns to Berlin and demonstrates that through creativity it is sometimes only a step from captivity to freedom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cage, Didier Guillon\u2019s allegory<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Hope <\/em>exhibition goes along with the iconic cages designed by Didier Guillon, two to be precise. The first one, small, takes up Ivo\u2019s motifs from The Elegant Symmetry of the Gorilla.<\/em> The cubic motif in primary colours is expressed joyfully, like a nose-thumbing at the object it covers. The second cage is built in opposition to the first one, although they are complementary. Large, it is adorned with an infinite number of Ivo\u2019s drawn in a single, strong, and straightforward line, thus creating an interlacing of White is Black <\/em>branches. <\/em>Like an echo of the bewitching Bwindi Forest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Made of assembled cardboard, they reflect two of La Maison Valmont\u2019s values: beauty and sustainability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Valentine & Didier Guillon<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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