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This exhibition at the Château – Centre d’Art Contemporain et du Patrimoine d’Aubenas – is the first solo show devoted to the artist in a French institution.
Fabrice Bousteau’s exhibition La fête intérieure! invites visitors to a whirlwind of joy and celebration!
Why do we need to celebrate? Beyond the glittery outfits and disco ball decorations, what’s really going on in our bodies as we vibrate and go wild on the dancefloor? What goes on in our heads and hearts during these moments of pleasure and letting go, and when the dance becomes a trance in the excesses of the night?
The exhibition brings together some twenty emerging and established artists to explore the question of the festive body. Without claiming to be exhaustive, the immersive, sensory journey takes visitors on a truly jubilant experience, exploring the emotional and physiological phenomena that manifest themselves during celebrations. Movements, shivers, contractions, pulsations, respiratory flows… the exhibition plunges us into the heart of the emotions and sensations that run through the organs and limbs of the human body, exhilarated by the electrifying atmosphere of festive evenings.
Opening 11 April, You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary Tapestry is a celebration of tapestry and its practitioners in the 21st century, offering a consideration of the strategies by which contemporary artists interrogate tactility and image in the age-old medium of tapestry in a current context. Featuring works by twenty-seven artists and designers, and organized by guest curator Su Wu, the exhibition depends, like the works that compel it, on an engagement with interstices specific to tapestry – between art and craft, the medium and the matter, and devotion and its technological mediation. Across monumental works of great detail, the exhibition expands our experiences of narrative and mythology in weaving, complicates traditional ethnographic associations of textile, and argues for the enduring possibility of image and memory as a physically substantive thing.
Exhibiting artists include: Caroline Achaintre, Hellen Ascoli, Yto Barrada, Diedrick Brackens, Melissa Cody, Negma Coy, Jovencio de la Paz, Josh Faught, Christina Forrer, Sanaa Gateja, Yann Gerstberger, Marie Hazard, Ane Henriksen, Kira Dominguez Hultgren, Suzanne Jackson, Sanam Khatabi, Tomasz Kowalski and Alicja Kowalska, ShinJa Lee, Candice Lin, Goshka Macuga, Christy Matson, Mai-Thu Perret, Sarah Rosalena, Analia Saban, Kiki Smith, Mika Tajima, Clarissa Tossin, Consuelo Jiménez Underwood, and Miranda Fengyuan Zhang.
To accompany the exhibition, Los Angeles-based vintage textile library and shop Kneeland Co. will take over and activate the Dallas Contemporary store, featuring specially designed ceramics, textiles, jewelry, and collectibles, for sale exclusively in the shop. All pieces are specially designed for and inspired by You Stretched Diagonally Across It, and will even include works by artists featured in the exhibition.
Born in 1967, Philippe Perrot grew up in the Paris suburbs. At the age of fifteen, he discovered post-war French literature and immersed himself in the writings of Antonin Artaud. He became fascinated by Pier Paolo Pasolini and the Italian New Wave, and enrolled in film school. Through short videos, the artist explores the world of his family and the wounds of his childhood. From the 1990s onwards, he abandoned cinema to devote himself to painting as a self-taught artist, without abandoning the themes that are so dear to him and that permeate the whole of his work. He died in 2015 at the age of 48, following a long illness.
A discreet artist who went against the grain of the contemporary art market, Philippe Perrot produced very little, three to four paintings a year, his corpus being limited to 130 canvases and as many drawings over his entire career. Thanks to a generous donation, six works by the artist entered the museum’s collections in 2019. This presentation is complemented by several loans from private collections.
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