by Charline Corubolo One Day, Le Magasin Changed Its Name To describe the last years of Le Magasin, the Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble as agitated is a gentle euphemism. There was strike action leading to the dismissal of [...]
The BioHARDCORE Capsule, which was installed at the Espace des Limbes de Saint-Etienne from 13 March to 1st April 2017, was primarily represented by its a mystical and heathen imaginary; followed by a voice, the rampant voice of Antoine Boute, [...]
par Benoît Lamy de la Chapelle The actual work of the contemporary artist is his or her CV1. De tonalité grise et sobre, constitués d’un mobilier froid et métallique, compressant les employés s’y affairant, les espaces de bureau dépeints dans [...]
by Marie Bechetoille Precarious statuses, contracts, pay, abuses of power, self-exploitation, and hypocrisy… The work of Joshua Schwebel identifies and reveals recurring, problematic practices in the contemporary art world, despite the fact that they are often invisible, masked, or hushed [...]
by Sophie Lapalu For the last few years, sociologist Barthelemy Bette has been preparing a thesis entitled L’art contemporain au travail, enquête sur des pratiques artistiques à la frontières de deux mondes sociaux [From Contemporary Art to Labour: An Inquiry [...]
by Julie Portier The most sensible of economists say so, and have done since the late 19th century: capitalist societies are evolving towards a growing reduction in work and reduction in the time that will be devoted to it in [...]
by Jill Gasparina It is hard not to be disconcerted at the discovery of the world of professional mermaids. For me, the very idea that an activity of this kind exists is likely to restore my faith in the human [...]
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 [...]
The Transpalette exhibition is the second largest retrospective by Michel Journiac since his death in 1995. The current interest in this artist is due both to the Christophe Gaillard gallery, which has represented the estate since 2017, leading a campaign [...]
Within the framework of its new programme, the Salle de bains in Lyon invited Fabienne Audéoud for an exhibition in three successive rooms, from December 2016 to March 2017, under the title Le bien [The Good].1 Georgia René-Worms spoke with [...]
The work of Pedro Barateiro (born in 1979 in Almada, Portugal, lives and works in Lisbon) offers a vision about the current state of western culture in times of advanced capitalism. It focuses namely on the way economical structures are [...]
by Josselin Vidalenc Cas de figures by Julie Sas is a stage installed at art3. It is accessed by first walking through a reception area and down three steps. The walls are white, as are the floor tiles. The stage [...]
by Marina James-Appel Under the windows of the Moly-Sabata residence, the Rhône occasionally leaves its bed. It covers the quays, pushes the doors of the houses and ventures as far as the fields, which it irrigates. Then it withdraws, leaving [...]
Le monde ou rien, presented at the Gac Annonay, is thethird chapter in a series of eponymous collective exhibitions whose first two editions were presented at the Galerie Circonstance in Nice, then the Espace Madoura in Vallauris. The slogan/title “Le [...]
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 [...]
