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9/9/2007

Two exhibitions

Jeu de Paume, Paris

Ultralab
Paradise Island (version 1.15)
A Voyage to the Middle of Time
since 10 09 2007 until 12 30 2007

Exhibition curator: Fabienne Fulchéri

Ultralab™ is a fairly mysterious group of artists, doubtless created in Paris in August 2000. Keen to experiment with a new form of artistic, economic and political autonomy, its members seem to work at the borderlines between art, science and communications. They regularly invite collaborators from various disciplines to participate in their projects.

They conduct secret operations in the realm of contemporary art with the aim of thwarting some of its perverse mechanisms. In particular, they recently suggested that they were the creators of ten invitations to nonexistent exhibitions. These were distributed in Paris in 1999, causing something of a stir.
Over the past seven years, the group has also been developing 'plastic fictions', which draw on the language of new technology. Its mechanisms generate in-situ installations; they are also created on, or extended through, the Internet, as well as through more or less material supports: film, drawings, photographs, paintings, games, music, sounds, computer images, computer programmes and publications.

For the 'L'Île de Paradis™ (version 1.15)', exhibition, which is part of the 'Terrains de jeux' series devised by Fabienne Fulchéri, Ultralab™ created, in its own words, an 'automatic, random and dysfunctional generator of island utopias'. This vast multimedia installation takes visitors into a Jeu de Paume that has been recreated in the style of a video game setting, full of references taken from the history of ideas, literature, art and B movies, scattered throughout the space like so many small neuronal bombs.

Thus Ultralab™, producer of decoys and traps, constantly deals in the true and the false, within a pseudo-founding narrative of which you can become, if you so wish, the abstract anti-hero.
On the Internet network (the virtual space of this site www.jeudepaume.org), various excrescences of the project list, document, preserve, experiment on and deconstruct, as in a portable laboratory, a certain idea of utopia, and reactivate its potential for joyous and productive subversion.

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Steichen
Lives in Photography
since 10 09 2007 until 12 30 2007

Edward Steichen (1879-1973) was one of the most prolific and influential photographers of the 20th century. This is the first European retrospective of his work and features 450 vintage prints plus a selection of documents.

He produced portraits, landscapes, still lifes and nudes, and demonstrated his talent photographing fashion, dance, theatre, flowers and commercial images, as well as in war and aerial photography. With Alfred Stieglitz he helped set up the Photo-Secession group and the journal Camera Work. In 1923, Condé Nast were sufficiently impressed by his pictorialist photos to make him art director of Vogue and Vanity Fair. Steichen became one of the leading figures of modernism. He also served as photography curator at New York's MoMA, where he organised the famous exhibition The Family of Man. This show began touring internationally in 1955 and attracted over 11 million visitors worldwide. It was the crowning event of Steichen's career.

Eduard Jean Steichen was born in Luxembourg on 27 March 1879. He was less than two years old when economic pressures forced the family to emigrate to the United States. They settled in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. As a young child he became interested in painting. Endlessly curious, at the age of 16 he bought his first camera. Serving an apprenticeship in a lithography firm, he suggested that the woodcuts used to illustrate manuals be replaced with his own photographs. But he also explored the medium's formal possibilities, and when the journal of photographer Alfred Stieglitz, Camera Notes, organised a competition, he sent in three photographs. All three were accepted. His career was launched. He was 21 and now became an American citizen with the name of Edward Steichen.

Press:
Manon Sellier: 33 (0)1 47 03 13 22 manonsellier@jeudepaume.org

Image: Ultralab™ et Sylvie Dupin. Copyleft Ultralab™, Sans titre, Île 01™ - The Wonderful Island that almost was, Vidéo 01™ - Destruction's Mix, 2007. Courtesy galerie Magda Danysz, Paris

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