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 [...]
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 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, [...]
by Simon Feydieu Checkers The attraction to a mirror is variable; it refers to our degree of narcissism, voyeurism, or simply the fascination that all optical effects can produce – such as reflections, but also transparency and diffraction. In the exhibition [...]
by Lillian Davies “It’s a little like the inside of my brain”1, artist and filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul explains, describing his most recent exhibition, Periphery of the Night at the institution where curator and director Nathalie Ergino founded Laboratoire Espace Cerveau2 with artist Ann [...]
by Raphaël Brunel 1.It’s a foggy December morning. To alleviate a splitting headache, I drink cup after cup of coffee at the counter of Le Bastringue. The person I’m meeting is late – it’s out of character. I plunge my hand [...]
by Pedro Marais While many of today’s researchers are not reflecting “on” elements of the living world, but through the lens of their agency – the mushroom for Anna Tsing or lichen for Vincent Zonca – philosopher Dénètem Touam Bona [...]
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 Claire Kueny During her career, which she has conducted since the 1950s without diverting from her path, Marion Baruch built her home – for herself and her family – in Gallarate, Italy, for nearly fifteen years. She wanted this [...]
by Angelo Careri “Enter the artwork”: this is what the exhibition at the Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Saint-Étienne dedicated to arte povera suggests we do. A title that highlights the desire to showcase certain little-known aspects of the [...]
by Benoît Lamy de La Chapelle For about a decade now, Treignac Projet has unrelentingly pursued the development of its programme, between astute exhibitions, summer residency programmes, and invitations extended to curators, artists, art critics, philosophers, and other theorists of [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 Sophie Lapalu Organising a paranoid chaos: this could be the leitmotiv of Liv Schulman’s works. Through the repetition of disparate elements, the establishment of a subdued strangeness, and through the power of humour with an occasional hint of sarcasm, [...]
Kisses Sweeter Than Wine is a video, first and foremost. A video-document that captures a performance by Öyvind Fahlström, produced during the 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering of 1966 and that was to serve as an anchorage point for this [...]
It seems hard to feel as though we’re in an exhibition when we enter Jacynthe’s This Space Between You And Me, not because of the purely immersive nature of the installation, but above all because it is, quite frankly, a [...]
by Laetitia Paviani ON THE CAUSE OF SILENCE, EACH ONE OF US DRAWS HER OWN FEAR – FEAR OF CONTEMPT, OF CENSURE, OR SOME JUDGEMENT, OR RECOGNITION, OF CHALLENGE, OF ANNIHILATION.1 No false modesty, let’s talk about it (…) Ilse d’Hollander, [...]
by Aurélie Barnier I dreamed the taste of pulverised bricks invites visitors on a total sensorial experience: oneiric and gustative, but also audible and tactile. Because while brick, made of dried or cooked clay, is a manufactured, imperfect form, it takes [...]
The Ghost Builder. Let’s just say that it’s a kind of enclosed open-air space. The body stretches out on a lawn. Here and there, each of our protagonists holds long metal instruments in their hands. Some make incisions in their [...]
by Caroline Engel Caroline Engel: What is the focus of your attention? Anne Le Troter: I collect speech and I write. I started recording work in mono: stories, but above all techniques that I’d invented to replay the world in [...]
by Benoît Lamy de la Chapelle The first time that I became aware of the work of Josselin Vidalenc, I didn’t know anything about him. Without daring to enter the “Ateliers” space1 that was reserved for him, I was nonetheless [...]
The Musée de Rochechouart is currently presenting the first monographic exhibition in France by artist Laure Prouvost. Born in 1978 in the small village of Croix and residing in London since she was 18, in 2013 she won the Turner [...]
Genre Humain [Human Genre], a musical track and the visual of the invitation, enumerating the list of 32 guest artists, already lays our cards on the table. But what “genre” of exhibition are we mounting here, in Bourges, in the [...]
First and foremost, the title. “Non-figurative: a revival of interest?” is the name of the exhibition that was held at the CAC Meymac from last 10 July to 16 October. As its name indicates, it was a collective exhibition presenting [...]
“Réparer à l’endroit de l’accroc le tissu du temps” (Identify the fabric of time at the place where it snags) is a collective exhibition whose title must first be unravelled, and that allows us to surmise that it cannot be [...]
In the car, you cross the landscape in curves; each bend leads to a new perspective of the forest, steep cliffs and plains, alternately hidden and revealed by the fog. The trees losing their leaves, brushed by the last bronzes [...]
At the Transpalette in Bourges, Jean-Luc Moulène is presenting, with “Disjunctions”, the first of his photographic series, with the same exacting approach underpinning all of the artist’s latterday work and, in particular, his photography. The “Disjunctions” are enigmatic and not [...]
“The egg and the sandals”. It sounds like the title of a fable, the announcement of the protagonists – who often have nothing to do with one another before the story begins. It is an impromtu meeting, worthy of a [...]
The Assaut de la Menuiserie presents “Blank”, a monographic exhibition by Juliana Borinski.When she works on photography or cinema, Juliana Borinski never uses a camera or video camera. She creates images that are generally abstract, using photosensitive paper or film [...]
La Belle Revue presents the words of one sculptor on another sculptor: Emilie Perotto explores the recent production of Stéphanie Cherpin, on the occasion of her solo exhibition in the vaulted rooms of the Frac Limousin. Stéphanie Cherpin has presented [...]
The Museum of Modern Art and the Opéra Théâtre de Saint-Étienne joined forces for the first time this spring, within the framework of the multidisciplinary festival Nouveau Siècle combining visual arts, dance, and music… The 2014 edition entitled “The New [...]
The sound of an electric impact, a voice, a murmur, silences, memories, an errant whistle – apparently in answer to the lapping of water – this is essentially what Dominique Petitgand’s exhibition at the Centre International d’Art et du Paysage [...]
Gabriel Kuri’s practice stems from the assembly of a small number of founding axioms, which he adapts, recontextualises and renames according to the site in which he intervenes. Among the elements that compose his plastic vocabulary, there are three major [...]
Le Musée d’art moderne de Saint-Étienne présente jusqu’au 27 janvier 2013 «Fiat Flux» : la nébuleuse Fluxus 1962-1978 », une exposition anniversaire labellisée «d’intérêt national» par le ministère de la Culture et de la Communication. Or, la célébration muséale du cinquantenaire de [...]
