by Sophie Lapalu Interview with Non-breaking space, La Tôlerie, October 2018. Sophie Lapalu: Non-breaking space is an umbrella association of local associations who have managed La Tôlerie, Clermont-Ferrand’s municipal art centre, for the past two years. Each of the associations [...]
by Ilan Michel The prologue of this story relates a desire, shared by four people, to create an exhibition space that puts the artwork and the discourse on an equal footing. The launching of the story is also its trigger [...]
by Benoît Lamy de la Chapelle Based in the faubourgs of Limoges for many years now, on the premises of its co-operators, FRAC Limousin, now FRAC-Artothèque du Limousin, will soon be relocated in a new building in the heart of [...]
by Géraldine Sfez In her videos as in her plastic work, Sarah del Pino focuses on what philosopher Donna Haraway calls “Wild Facts”, in other words, micro-events of reality, in observed elements – since they are invisible or dissimulated – [...]
by Claire Moulène Few artists have such a solid appetite. Curious about everything without ever feigning it’s too much, as others flaunt their fill out of self-importance or calculation, Théo Massoulier savours with great gusto the thousand lessons stemming from [...]
At first glance, Cédric Esturillo’s installations impress through their deliberately seductive visual generosity: lush environments in a riot of colour, they buoy and even needle the gaze. Plays of resemblance arise: can we not detect certain motifs through the opulence [...]
by Paul Bernard A Spectral Presence of Spectacle On 2 June 1967, Daniel Buren, Olivier Mosset, Michel Parmentier, and Niele Toroni, created their Manifestation 3. In the auditorium of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs de Paris, the public, who had [...]
by Marie Chênel By giving her solo exhibition at the Villa du Parc in Annemasse the title Pourquoi je suis tout bleu [Why I Am All Blue], Nadira Husain plunges us – as a kind of foreword to the visit [...]
by Leïla Couradin At the entrance to the exhibition Predicted Autumn by Jochen Lempert at the Musée d’art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne, in Rochechouart, fireflies have traced onto three negatives, in a darkroom, a line evoking an abstract calligraphy. Could [...]
by Hanna Alkema The exhibition “Le Génieu du lieu” deftly presents a renewed focus on the industrial building of Creux de l’enfer, reconfigured as an art centre exactly thirty years ago. The seven guest artists, including one duo, populate each [...]
by Benoît Lamy de la Chapelle The biennial format and other cultural events of similar size and scope have recently been losing steam. There are too many of them; they’ve struggled to inject new ideas into a narrative that has [...]
by Lætitia Pavianni STROLL IN BUNDSCHUH Like an heavy duty boot floating on the blue-green moiré banner(1) of their website, the phrase “Faggotry as it is today” only appears when you click on the top right, on a discreet question mark [...]
by Mathilde Villeneuve From our hands that fossick… and barely pick anything up. She rolls a clay ball between her fingers, applying pressure between index and thumb to mould a petal, repeating the gesture hundreds of times, before pouring all [...]
by Camille Paulhan The title of Joëlle Tuerlinckx’ solo exhibition at the CIAP (the International Centre of Art and Landscape) in Vassivière, summer 2018, is as enigmatic as it is contemplative: la constellation du peut-être [The Constellation of Maybe]. The [...]
