The life Tested...
dal 17/12/2009 al 13/2/2010
Segnalato da
Veronique Boudier
Alain Della Negra
Kaori Kinoshita
Jeremy Deller
Raoul Hausmann
Florence Lazar
Kris Martin
Jean-Luc Moulene
Noelle Pujol
Jean-Xavier Renaud
David Renggli
Taroop & Glabel
Franziska Weinberger
Lois Weinberger
Sandra Cattini
17/12/2009
The life Tested...
IAC - Institut d'art contemporain, Villeurbanne
The title of the exhibition -borrowed from Jimmie Durham- is a word that makes an image. It is impossible to pronounce unless described literally as 'life crossed out diagonally' and is a condensation of several lines of the show, ranging from a route through territory indicated by a road sign to the irreducibility of image to word. The works of 15 artists shown often follow a pathway leading from the document to the poem by feeding on the real which, by means of a swelling body of descriptions and observation.
Véronique Boudier, Alain Della Negra & Kaori Kinoshita, Jeremy Deller, Raoul Hausmann, Florence Lazar, Kris Martin, Jean-Luc Moulène, Noëlle Pujol, Jean-Xavier Renaud, David Renggli, Taroop & Glabel, Franziska & Lois Weinberger
Guest curator Sandra Cattini
The title of the exhibition —borrowed from Jimmie Durham— is a word that makes an image. It is impossible to pronounce unless described literally as 'life crossed out diagonally' and is a condensation of several lines of the exhibition, ranging from a route through territory indicated by a road sign to the irreducibility of image to word.
Several stories of lives or experiences in real time are provided along the route, setting storytelling alongside experience. Their evocative force is strengthened by the link between works and language, whether as a struggle or a disjunction. The question of boundaries is raised, with what limits, what prevents and calls for strategies of circumvention or transcendence to go beyond the framework or to generate stridency, a visual feedback effect. Things can shift out of the frame, the model can be derailed or the artificial can gain power, all being on each occasion the material or subject of a sudden surge and certainly forming one of the essential components of the exhibition.
The works shown often follow a pathway leading from the document to the poem by feeding on the real which, by means of a swelling body of descriptions and observation, comes to life under our eyes and performs a metamorphosis from herbarium to garden. The collected hubbub of the world and the various states of society documented thus cause a kind of dazzling or the swinging of the spotlight from the stage to the audience.
Although the relationship with language tries to prevent it from controlling experience, the notion of story runs right through the exhibition—through the chronicler or storyteller and also through the presence of anecdotes and small events. More than making a critique of established order or a satire of society, the artists give us a view of the world deeply worked by the curve of a revolution, a twisting movement that can be driven by a breath of resistance and energy that is sometimes as destructive as creative.
The Institut d'art contemporain gratefully acknowledges the support of the Ministry of Culture (DRAC Rhône-Alpes), the Rhône-Alpes region and the city of Villeurbanne.
Press contact: Delphine Peyronnet d.peyronnet@i-ac.eu
Institut d'art contemporain Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes
11 rue Docteur Dolard F-69100 Villeurbanne
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Admission:
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