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11/12/2014

Tree Exhibition

Palais de Tokyo, Paris

curate by Bernard Marcadé

Virginie Gouband

(born in 1988, lives and works in Dordogne) invites the visitor into a closed space and presents an installation integrating reflecting materials that play with the light. The works question the materiality of the image by pushing back the limits between the photographed object and the abstract form resulting from it.

Her interest lies in the way that photography and video relate to light. Color is added to this relationship through transparencies, permeability and fade-outs in a delicate and poetic process that equally integrates voluntary degradation, burning and wearing through light exposure. In the series of Light Sculptures, begun in 2011, the pictures taken of color filters—through the reproduction process of the object blurring our perception of the photographed objects—question their status as photographic object and disturb our representation of reality. Playing on projections and transpositions, her work implies potential action upon the exhibition space and its visitors. In her most recent pieces, the artist has considered the architecture as existing for the works, opening the image to a real presence and making it interact with the space that contains it

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Loiuse Pressager

The Latin cross is a recurring motif in the exhibition by Louise Pressager (born in 1985, lives and works in Malakoff). As a synthesis of the horizontal and vertical dynamics at work in society, the cross symbolizes for the artist social climbing and falling, the quest for spiritual elevation but also the horizontal deployment of energy. Her drawings, objects, photos and videos associate religious and medical symbols in order to address the tensions between competition and solidarity, marginality and obstinacy by underscoring the absurdity of our customs and hopes.

Louise Pressager unapologetically and humorously grapples with the themes of sexuality, health, religion and work. Drawing from daily life and her personal experiences, she questions with an incisive sense of irony universal subjects such as belief, the hunger for success, suffering and what is left unsaid. Louise Pressager’s view of existence, either collective or intimate, is all the more trenchant as her work employs a simple visual language and a great sparseness of plastic and formal means

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Qingmei Yao

(born in 1982, lives and works in Paris and Limoges) presents several poetic and farcical films – some of which were produced specially for her exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo – as well as diverse objects, accessories and technical elements that come together to create a specific environment. In this way, Qingmei Yao’s works dialogue with each other and are set out in a unique installation relating to live performance while they expose what happens behind the scenes.

Through absurd and critical performances integrating music and dance, costumes and theatre sets, as well as video and photographic elements, the artist is continually at work on the formulation of a political and social investigation. Fascinated by the survival in China of a cumbersome communist ideal, she portrays poetic, obstinate and distorted characters that ponder the conquest and the loss of power, the meaning of hierarchy and the symbolism of authority.

The works Professeur Yao and Sculpter un billet de 100 euros are coproduced with le Pavillon Blanc, Centre d’art I Médiathèque de Colomiers.

Image: Qingmei YAO, Une goutte d’étoile, 2014. Courtesy de l’artiste.

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Opening 12 december

Palais de Tokyo
13, avenue du President Wilson-Paris Francia
Hours: daily 12-24 except tuesday

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