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The Documents d'artistes Network is developing a critical support program consisting of initiating meetings between artists and authors to encourage the writing of original texts on contemporary artistic approaches.
This year, thanks to the support of the Fondation de l'Olivier*, three new collaborations have been implemented by DDA-AuRA. We are pleased to unveil the resulting new publications:
— Émilie Perotto seen by Balqis Tandjaoui
— Simon Feydieu seen by Amélie Lucas-Gary
— Olivier Nottellet seen by Eugénie Zély
The Fondation de l'Olivier thus allows us to strengthen our commitment to visibility and knowledge of the work of artist-authors.
* Sheltered by the Bullukian Foundation, the Fondation de l'Olivier's main mission is solidarity and support for artistic expression in the Lyon region.
Artist's news
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Perrine Lacroix
Group exhibition
Atelier Perrine Lacroix, Lyon
18/09 — 12/10/2024
Lancement éditions Les versions de Laurence Cathala et Some of us - artistes contemporainexs, une anthologie
Laurence Cathala
Event
La BF15, Lyon
12/10 — 13/10/2024
Seveso Garden Party Party 3
Simon Feydieu
Group exhibition
La Mezz, Oullins-Pierre-Bénite
28/09 — 17/10/2024
Odeur de terre
Keiko Machida
Solo exhibition
Le Labo, Genève
15/09 — 19/10/2024
30+1 #3
Matt Coco, Gaëlle Foray, Sylvie Sauvageon, Lise Roussel
Group exhibition
Le Cloitre Art Contemporain, Lyon
28/09 — 26/10/2024
La vie devant soi
Françoise Vergier, Linda Sanchez
Group exhibition
Galerie Papillon, Paris
31/08 — 30/10/2024
Surexposition V, Des photos - Des livres - Des enfants
Yveline Loiseur
Group exhibition
Galerie Immix, Paris
19/09 — 30/10/2024
Tourner sa langue
Laurence Cathala
Group exhibition
La BF15, Lyon
12/09 — 02/11/2024
Couper à travers les prés
Franck Chalendard
Solo exhibition
Château-musée, Tournon-sur-Rhône
14/06 — 03/11/2024
Effleurer
Christine Crozat
Group exhibition
Le pays où le ciel est toujours bleu, Orléans
26/09 — 03/11/2024
Rose de vie
Olivier Nottellet
Group exhibition
La galerie des Jours de Lune, Metz
06/09 — 06/11/2024
Monomania
Marc Desgrandchamps
Group exhibition
Atelier Michael Woolworth, Paris
27/09 — 09/11/2024
Thematic tour
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Crossing the water
On the occasion of the 17th Lyon Contemporary Art Biennale, this thematic tours proposed by Jade Ronat-Mallié presents a selection of works echoing the title of this new edition: “Les voix des fleuves, Crossing the water”.
Salmon are anadromous fish: they are born in fresh water, then migrate to salt water to return to finish their days and lay their eggs at the place of their birth, thus crossing thousands of kilometers.
I imagined them going back up the watercolors of the course of La Vilaine painted by Sylvie Sauvageon, according to the original surveys of 1543. I saw them following the Rhône and crossing the same landscape as the one taken by Bertrand Stofleth, from the glacier of the Swiss Alps to the Mediterranean Sea.
I wondered if they could cross a smaller watercourse, like the one running alongside the village of Sainte-Colombe-en-Auxois, whose photographic portrait of the inhabitants was drawn by Rajak Ohanian. I saw them still moving forward, hesitant but tirelessly, like the drop of water in the film “1752 mètres et des poussières…” by Linda Sanchez.
Then I thought back to the documentary “La Rivière” by Dominique Marchais (2023) in which a researcher explains that through a tiny stone contained in the inner ear of salmon, composed of successive layers of calcium carbonate and proteins, he can glimpse the life history of the entire species.
What would the human “ear stone” be made of and what would it tell us? Would it resemble Gaëlle Foray’s fossils, composed of schists sedimented at a time when our mountains were still underwater?
If rocks have a memory of the evolution of our environment, what stigma are we leaving? This is partly one of the questions raised by Camille Llobet in her documentary essay “Pacheû” on the traces of climate change in the high mountains.
In another field of research, Guillaume Robert went to Goražde to rebuild a mini hydroelectric power station, with the help of the mechanic who initiated the design of similar machines in 1993 during the siege of the Serbian army in Bosnia. Its reactivation launched on the Drina is the subject of an eponymous film. By emphasizing the political dimension of the river, he also reminds us that human activity has always been intrinsically linked to water.
With the “Aster” project, Delphine Gigoux-Martin intervenes on another type of structure dedicated to the exploitation of waterways, the Saint-Étienne-Cantalès hydroelectric dam. Like the chimeras projected by the artist on the construction, we are ephemeral inhabitants, a layer sedimented by our activities on Earth.
In light of our exposed contradictions, Maxime Lamarche’s work “Midnightswim”, depicting a wreck of a Ford Taunus sinking in the water, keeps coming back to me with this nagging question: could this be the last midnight swim?
— List of the mentioned artists :
- Sylvie Sauvageon
- Bertrand Stofleth
- Rajak Ohanian
- Linda Sanchez
- Gaëlle Foray
- Camille Llobet
- Delphine Gigoux-Martin
- Guillaume Robert
- Maxime Lamarche
Public space artworks
See all artworksAprès la pluie, 2022
Jan Kopp
Public commissions
Square Madeleine Brès, Rennes
Atelier Croizat, 2022
Simon Feydieu
Public commissions
Atelier Croizat / Maison du développement du durable, Saint-Fons
La constellation Cazalis, 2022
Delphine Gigoux-Martin
Private commissions
La Forêt d'art contemporain, Cazalis
Le poids des choses, 2022
Maxime Lamarche
Public commissions
Mini-Golf, Château-Gontier-sur-Mayenne
Aster, 2021
Delphine Gigoux-Martin
Public commissions
Barrage, Saint-Etienne-Cantalès
Une Folie 2020, 2021
Mengzhi Zheng
Private commissions
Vents des Forêts, Nicey-sur-Aire
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