Rineke Dijkstra will be participating in the first edition of The Contemporary Art Biennale: Rouge Odyssée. Her video work The Buzz Club, Liverpool, UK / Mystery World, Zaandam, NL, 1996–1997, will be presented in Bonifacio, Corsica from 27 May until 6 November 2022.

With this work, Dijkstra offers a portrait of youth in a period of transition and construction. Standing alone against an empty background, a blank page that evokes an inner territory to be shaped, the young men and women in the visited nightclubs are immersed in introspection. They are both vulnerable yet already seem to be creating their own subculture, a world where they will no longer need to fight to find their place. The artwork reveals a picture of something infinitely subtle: an intuition, an intimacy, a graceful and universal truth, which affects our carefully rehearsed and largely bittersweet admission into the world of adulthood.

Organised by De Renava, Rouge Odyssée questions the function of home as a liminal space in perpetual mutation, base of hopes and tensions. From the Mediterranean Sea where waves of thoughts, goods and people have constantly determined History, the show explores the themes of exile, memory and transmission, inviting us to observe human trajectories.

De Renava