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12/2/2007

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster

Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris - MAM, Paris

Expodrome

Curated by : Angeline Scherf with Emilie Renard

This is ARC's first major solo exhibition of the work of Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. In preference to the more conventional retrospective mode, the artist has opted for presenting an ensemble of works created in collaboration with an exhibition team – her version of a film crew. Embodying the notions of shared space and playground, the exhibition puts the viewer at the heart of the set. Since the early 1990s, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster has been pursuing a thoroughly independent line, never hesitating to move beyond the art field, push back its frontiers and explore its relationship with such other domains as cinema, architecture, fashion, music and literature. She has built her oeuvre around space, beginning with the intimacy of Chambres and working through films and environments to her extreme urban situations and landscapes.

In ARC's modernist architectural setting Expodrome brings together a number of space-times; that trigger singular experiences: Solarium, La Fee Electricite', La Jetee, Promenade, Panorama, Cosmodrome and Cinema. These environments – visual, sound-based, physical – make up an exploratory journey on the edge of the exhibition. The exhibition is the medium for the artist: designing potential spaces and exploring limitations are ways of producing situations a little like staged scenes with which viewers can engage as they move through the exhibition. The first such situation – created with Nicolas Ghesquiere – is the environment/projection Solarium on the great staircase leading to the Salle Dufy.

Then, integrated into the exhibition, comes Dufy's panoramic La Fee &Eectricite', accompanied by an instrumental montage by Alain Bashung. On the ARC floor itself La Jetee, another joint creation with Nicolas Ghesquière, slows visitors' progress down with an artificial landscape, an accumulation of sombre blocks and modules. The large space opens out onto Promenade, created with Christophe Van Huffel: an invisible work whose cinema-inspired use of sound turns this into a radically tropicalised zone. Panorama, created with Benoit Lalloz and Martial Galfione, presents, in the curved area, a contemporary version of 19th century panoramas, a luminously nocturnal vision of our planet's great metropolises. Tapis de lecture is an invitation to leaf through piles of paperbacks: these are the artist's reservoir of possibilities, the source material for her fictions. Next, an outdoor walkway takes the visitor into Cosmodrome (2001), a launch pad with sound by Jay-Jay Johanson.

Lastly, Cinema is a selection of Gonzalez-Foerster's films – some made with Ange Leccia – since 1996. Every Sunday at 3 pm a guest will offer a special cinema programme that ties in with the exhibition. The written and visual collaborations making up the catalogue played a large part in the genesis of Expodrome. Among the contributors are Jean-Max Colard, Nicolas Ghesquière, Francesca Grassi, Lisette Lagnado, Ange Leccia, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Philippe Rahm and Angeline Scherf. Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster has already shown several times at ARC, with Numero Bleu (1991), L'hiver de l'amour (1994), Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Pierre Huyghe and Philippe Parreno (1998) and Voila'; (2000); at many international biennials and film festivals; and more recently at the 27th São Paulo biennial (2006). She was invited at Documenta XI in Kassel (2002) and will be taking part in the next Skulptur Project in Munster this year.

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