The students of the Master 2 mention Arts of the University of Lille envisage for each exhibition virtual visits and mediation devices in connection with the different artistic proposals.
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Interstice.s – March 9 to 27, 2021
· Variable geometry samples / March 9-13, 2021
Geoffroy Didier – Thibault Barois
· Interferences / March 16-20, 2021
Saraï Jaimes – Marilou Fleuriet – Gaëtan Lefevre
· Kinesphère / March 23-27, 2021
Audrey Derail – Anastasia Thibault – Maël de Julis
“The new universality is to feel that the ground is giving way”. Who would have believed, just a few months ago, that our current situation would be like this? Four years ago, Bruno La-tour already sensed the world of tomorrow, as an invitation to beware of the environment that surrounds us and what we do with it (Where to land?, 2017). We are now immersed in this new world, agitated by an influx of information, adaptation, and new constraints. Cultural activity is not spared, and is also experiencing its share of desolations.
In a particular context that everyone experiences or experiences unevenly, the title of the exhibition first of all refers to different conceptions of space: that of the territory, the habitat and the body. Interstice·s therefore proposes to be a creative parenthesis where the artistic production of young artists turns around the current world and its fatalistic tendency. Indeed, the term conceals multiple morphologies: either a restricted space between two bodies or between two parts, a crack through which to extract. Ultimately, it is a non-place, a breach, an empty and abandoned space, a suspended moment, a fortuitous parenthesis in which the event occurs or, on the contrary, disappears (…). We can then assimilate it to the duration of each exhibition and to the time offered to us to promote university artistic training. Conversely, it induces a certain void, a small space that is often microscopic.
Students of the Master 2 Arts degree from the University of Lille share their plastic creations with you in the artconnexion exhibition space, organized into three thematic chapters. Each of the artists reports on their current perceptions of things. This exhibition therefore takes the gamble of breaking away from the obstacles incumbent on our society and nevertheless shows – in the way in which it will be possible – the productions of these young creators. In other words, it symbolizes the field of possibilities for all these students, these individuals waiting for a promising future. This particular time is also that of the transition, of the passage from the status of student to that of professional artist. With creation as a common objective, this cycle of exhibitions encourages intra-artistic mobilization within an accessible and warm space such as artconnexion. In the heart of Old Lille, this real house allows all artists to leave their imprints between these interstices, both physically and virtually.
These plastic works are a comma, a “sigh” at the heart of the social and media tumult, which in turn transport you to another universe, their universe. The first exhibition, Variable geometry samples, presents the works of Thibault Barois and Geoffroy Didier, students at ESA Tourcoing. The two artists have thought together this first event, which sees three proposals in a variety of plastic techniques interact. In a second part, Interference works to show the connections and interactions between individuals through three artistic proposals. The artists play with time and space, anchored in the context of confinement, in order to present their interpretations. The third and final exhibition highlights the notion of “kinesphere”. Here, the three artists offer “to the public” a new look at the body, space and movements, taking into account the values and questions concomitant to our carnal envelope. With Kinesphere, this curatorial cycle concludes with the relationship that binds the individual to modern society, plagued by difficulties and the resulting consequences. The very idea of restriction – of space, of freedom – runs through these three exhibitions, which attempt to translate this idea through art.
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