by Patricia MacCormack Diann Bauer belongs to a movement which currently challenges some of the persistent humanist and essentialist approaches in posthumanism and also incorporates issues facing minoritarian bodies. This movement, known as xenofeminism, according to the manifesto ‘is a […]
by Raphaël Brunel Early December, Thiers. In front of the Usine du May, the deafening roar of the waterfall. With a background in the fine arts, singing, and electro-acoustic composition, Anna Holveck sings Demy-style love while opening (fade in) and […]
by Elsa Vettier Within an hour, it’s over; you’ll see nothing more. Three hours of an afternoon only, but the night falls early over the Vallée de la Graine and there is no electrical lighting on this floor of the […]
Rays of light refract whilst luminous spectral colors fill the room, the flowing movement of the water casts a spell over us through seemingly infinitely overlapping images. Suddenly it becomes clear that all these images originate from a digital source, […]
by Marie Chênel For an infinite negotiation of adjusted considerations1 Entitled “Wild Diplomacy”, the current exhibition at the Centre international d’art et de paysage, Vassivière brings together the work of four artists— Suzanne Husky, Ilanit Illouz, Natsuko Uchino and Ittah Yoda— who […]
by Julier Portier The 2023 edition of Galeries Nomades has just drawn to a close in the Drôme department of France. Every two years since 2007, this programme headed by the Institut d’art contemporain — Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes (IAC) has organised five […]
by Nadine Droste Huge scissor arms open towards the visitors and welcome them. Scissors without bodies, larger than life. They occupy the space in order to take hold of the viewers, to lead them into the centre of the exhibition, […]
by Marie Muzerelle Although we did not directly affirm any feminist commitment, the beginnings of somme toute1 today seem to me to be indissociable from the political effervescence that followed #metoo. I had been reading Les luttes des putes2 at […]
by Mihena Alsharif “In the train it was no longer a question of being aware of my body in the third person but in a triple person. In the train I was given not one but two, three places […]. […]
Last March, I was contacted by the editorial team of La belle revue, who asked me to write about the book Pour des écoles d’art féministes ! [In Favour of Feminist Art Schools]. I wanted to use this invitation to […]
A symphony of greed resonates in the exchange floors,where fortunes are played and settled with scores. The devil’s suit is tailor-made, a handmade design,his fork replaced by interwoven contracts.In boardrooms and behind the scenes, where secrets unveil,he negotiates deals in […]
by Sophie T. Lvoff For Thea Djordjadze’s first major presentation in France displaying more than sixty artworks, produced between 1993 and 2021, the gestures in the rooms needed to be powerful, forceful, even. I use the word forceful here for […]
by Tania Hautin-Trémolières A biennial is often a sprawling event. Dense, immense, dispersed. The Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art is no exception to this tentacular disposition. Its 16ᵉ edition, conceived by the curatorial duo Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, is […]
by Lætitia Pavianni Ethan Assouline’s exhibition “La médiathèque autonome” at La Tôlerie took place in the autumn of 2022. One could believe that seasons have existed since forever, as they say. However, the word autumn first appeared relatively late […]
by Théo Robine-Langlois 1) the door’s blue color changed it’s more intense now being fresh (colloquial) The skylightThe skydangerous exercise Impossible speech the first daybegins Commureopens its doors to the public and to […]
by franckDavid I don’t know Raymonde Morin, I don’t know Bernard Fournier, I don’t know Jean-Marc Gébelin not yet either Françoise Simont. These four are strangers to me, yet not to each other as in the year written one nine […]
by Lola Fontanié Interview with Grégoire Pérotin and Simon Dubedat (Fossile Futur), and Antoine Beaucourt (In extenso) by Lola Fontanié December 2022 Lola Fontanié: Can you present Fossile Future to us? How long has the association existed, and how did […]
I met Lili Reynaud Dewar in Paris— an artist who is also accustomed to interviewing people— so she could tell me about the city where she has been living and working for more than a decade now, a city that […]
by Katia Porro When I visited Julie Sas’s exhibition “OK OK K.O” at Treignac Projet, I was in denial of anger. I rejected the feeling, believing it was truly a waste of energy, resisting that tension rising from within, that […]
par Katia Porro The more I think of the title “Mood Ring” the more I am convinced that there exists no other phrase more appropriate to entitle an exhibition. Because an exhibition functions as such: an array of colours, or shades, […]
