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 Camille Paulhan For many, artothèques are would-be ‘Sleeping Beauties’: we have definitely heard of them, we know the principle generally, but they remain somewhat mysterious. Distributed very unevenly over the national territory, with a strong presence in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes [...]
by Carin Klonowski 7 November 2020, I arrive @ravisius_textor1 to attend the opening of the exhibition Ce que savent nos mains [What Our Hands Know], reflecting Yoan Sorin’s residency at the DnMade Espace of the École Supérieure d’Arts Appliqués de [...]
by Camille Azaïs ‘Western civilization literally cleared its space in the midst of forests,’ writes Robert Harrison. ‘A sylvan fringe of darkness defined the limits of its cultivation, the margins of its cities, the boundaries of its institutional domain; but [...]
by Henri Guette Beyond a potential signature, graffiti attests to communication, as a geographic or temporal indication designed for a reader or a minimal piece of information destined to enter the fabric of time. At the Musée de la Céramique [...]
by Pauline Lisowski The encounter with a site, sometimes in transition, between city and nature, guides Marie Dechavanne in her creative process. She sees the discovery of materials and her interest in the history of places as sources of experience. [...]
by Pierre-Alexandre Mateos Behind the fields, Pougues-les-Eaux is a testament to the faded glory of what was once a spa town. Its houses evoke the burgeoning bourgeoisie of 1900 and its taste for pavilions and tree-lined parks. In the heart [...]
by Louise Bernatowiez, Richard Neyroud The title of the exhibition I Killed the Butterfly in My Ear echoes the last phrase of an earlier film by Minia Biabiany, Toli Toli (2018): “Butterflies cause blindness when they blow in your ears.” [...]
by Tancrède Rivière In Lacoux, in the old school and town hall in a very Third Republic style, where the information panel compares him to Rimbaud, Bertrand Dezoteux is less inclined towards the loosening of morals and Hugolian alexandrine than [...]
by Éloïse Labie On 29 October 2020 Carbone 20 opened in Saint-Étienne, the second edition of this “biennale of collectives and artists’ spaces”. The visit began under the battered sign of a ready-to-wear boutique, “Miss Mode”, where the reception and bookshop were installed, [...]
by Smaranda Olcèse Smaranda Olcèse: The exhibition that you are presenting at the Centre d’art de Privas is the third chapter in a long-term research project influenced by your trip to Mexico in 2015. Could you tell us about the [...]
by Emilie d’Ornano It was in 2014 that Romane Domas, a student at architecture school, and Bruno Silva, a young artist, decided to move in together. Their apartment, based in Clermont-Ferrand, had to respond to one essential criterion: the possibility [...]
by Romain Noël Several months ago, I hit the road to go see Damien Fragnon’s exhibition Les falaises traversent nos mains [Cliffs Traverse Our Hands]. Several minutes after my arrival, a stranger approached me and told me that the exhibition [...]
