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 Carin Klonowski An art space whose name you think you’ve heard before. A big space, with a waxed concrete floor, why not on old industrial premises. You haven’t got it all wrong, but you’re nevertheless far from reality. There’s [...]
by Isabelle Henrion The Bastille Art Centre in Grenoble is a place with somewhat paradoxical visibility. Perched atop the Fort de la Bastille, an emblematic tourist spot in the city, it is accessed via the “Bulles de Grenoble”, an urban [...]
by Emilie d’Ornano On the national scale, many artists’ workshops and entities dedicated to the visual arts have a fragile economy. It has become essential to imagine new schemas of cooperation and mutualisation, in order to engage in an examination [...]
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 Fabrice Gallis Meymac, 14 October 2019, 11 am, cuisine by Caroline Bissière and Jean-Paul Blanchet. A pile of potatoes dominates the table. Fabrice Gallis: I’m preparing a focus for La belle revue on the Centre d’Art Contemporain de Meymac, [...]
by Anne Favier The watershed isn’t a mirage. In the Regional Park of Monts d’Ardèche, it’s a very real ridgeline: the place where the waters are divided and singularly sculpt the landscape by flowing down either the Mediterranean or the [...]
par Raphaël Brunel Itinerary: Paris – Moulins-sur-Allier by train (2 hrs 25), then forty minutes by car to reach Cosne d’Allier. The coordinates (46° 28′ 34″ north, 2° 49′ 56″ east) don’t lie: we are more or less in the middle of France. A centre whose [...]
by Julie Portier “Lyon: 273 800 visitors for the 15th Contemporary Art Biennale” reads the headline on the website of the magazine Lyon Capitale under the image of a night grocery store in the neighbourhood of the Perrache train station. [...]
by Victorine Grataloup LAC & S – Lavitrine is a surprising name. It is nevertheless on the shores of a very real lake, that of Vassivière, that this contemporary art association that manages an exhibition space on Rue Raspail in [...]
by Marina James- Appel While for the past ten years La belle revue has published non-stop, confronting and questioning the artistic practices of a territory whose affinities are international in scope, it is also the fruit of a combination of [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 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 [...]
