Julian Farade, Baptiste Penetticobra, Richard Sides, Zoé de Soumagnat, Alicia Tsigarides, Manuel Vieillot & Dardan Zhegrova
February 14 – March 9, 2019
Curated by / Commissariat par Mathilde Expose · Victoria Aresheva, Anastasia Krizanovska, Elena Sorokina
Opening, Thursday, February 14, 6 –9pm
Alicia Tsigarides
Poetry reading at 7:30pm
Dardan Zhegrova
Performance Lucky Pierre à 20h | at 8pm
The exhibition will elaborate on the issue of the modern solitude taking in consideration its different aspects: personal and sentimental, poetic and social, but also political, – as a sort of intuitive rumination on this widely spread phenomenon. The idea of loneliness which we aim to expose will remind you of a tender and nostalgic feeling we have all experienced after an overwhelming night out; a flashback which brings you back to joyful sensations that are nothing but memories now, pushing you to seek comfort and consolation that would help you fill the void created by something already gone.
We are looking to seize the symptoms of solitude and to understand its premises: the increasing speed of our way of living, the individualism and distinctiveness dictated by the society, the alienation rooted in the expansion of the digital world, the isolation of subject facing political system, not to mention its fragmentation and self-dispersion in superficial relationships and, of course, dissatisfaction, frustration et al. Yet above all, we would like to create a special ambience by speaking very personally about a particular state that each and every one is experiencing in his life from time to time. What we are trying to depict is an intimate and somehow vulnerable, slightly melancholic and sometimes anxious version of “us”. A state in which everyone can recognize him/herself even though not everyone would be eager to admit it openly.
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Lecture de poésie à 19h30
Dardan Zhegrova
Performance Lucky Pierre à 20h
L’exposition portera sur la problématique de la solitude contemporaine que nous aborderons sous de multiples angles — personnel et sentimental, poétique, social et politique — afin de mener une réflexion intuitive sur les formes que ce phénomène revêt dans le contexte contemporain. La notion de solitude dont nous traitons dans ce projet s’exprime à travers des formes douces affectées d’une forme de nostalgie : les souvenirs d’une fête passée, un désir de retrouver le réconfort ou un léger malaise dont nous avons tous fait l’expérience au lendemain d’une soirée festive.
Nous aimerions saisir les symptômes de la solitude et déduire ses prémisses — la vitesse accélérée de notre mode de vie, l’individualisme que nous impose la société, l’aliénation provenant de l’expansion du monde digital, l’isolation du sujet face au système politique, sans oublier sa fragmentation et auto-dispersion dans des rapports intersubjectifs et superficiels ou encore son insatisfaction ponctuelle ou globale. Mais, avant tout, nous souhaitons créer une ambiance et parler de quelque chose à la fois paradigmatique et personnel, en faisant ressortir cet état particulier que chacun d’entre nous a vécu à un moment ou à un autre. Enfin, ce que nous cherchons à saisir, c’est une version intime et vulnérable, subtilement mélancolique et parfois angoissée de « nous », version dans laquelle tout le monde peut se reconnaître sans toujours oser se l’avouer.
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Julian Farade
Né en 1986 à Paris, France.
Vit et travaille à New York.
Born in 1986 in Paris, France.
Lives and works in New York.
EXPOSITION PERSONNELLE / SOLO EXHIBITION
2018
Podgorny Robinson Gallery, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
Baptiste Penetticobra
Né en 1991 à Montmorency, France.
Vit et travaille à Paris et à Los Angeles.
Born in 1991 in Montmorency, France.
Lives and works in Paris and Los Angeles.
FORMATION / EDUCATION
2014 – École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris (photo|vidéo)
2012 – College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning. University of Cincinnati, Ohio (Fine Arts)
EXPOSITIONS ET PROJECTIONS |EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS
2018
Home, Hood, Hills, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles
Le Palais de Tokyo, The Game of Life, Paris Ass book fair, Paris
2017
Le Cinéma Club, Paris
Forum des Images, Paris
Jeune Création Vidéo – Cinéma – le FIPA, Biarritz
Kyiv International Short Film Festival, Kiev
Aesthetica Film Festival, York, United Kingdom
2016
Chelsea Film Festival, New York
DTLA Proud Festival, Los Angeles
Le Centre Pompidou, Hors-Pistes, Paris
La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris,
2015
Wanderlust – Congrats! Magazine 3rd Issue Launch, Paris
Les inRocks Lab, official selection, Entertainment Capital of the World, Paris
Richard Sides
Né en 1985 au Royaume-Uni.
Vit et travaille à Berlin.
Born in 1985 in United Kingdom.
Lives and works in Berlin.
FORMATION / EDUCATION
2012 – MA Sculpture, Royal College of Art, London
2008 – BA (Hons) Contemporary Fine Art, Sheffield Hallam
EXPOSITIONS RECENTES / RECENT EXHIBITIONS
2018
with 3fragments, Schiefe Zähne, Berlin
READYMADES BELONG TO EVERYONE, with Gili Tal, Swiss Institute, New York
Reduced to Clear, with Gili Tal, Le Bourgeois, London
2017
Pure Hate, Liszt, Berlin
Scattered Disc (Group show), Center For Contemporary Art Futura, Prague
Geometry of Now (curated by Mark Fell), V-A-C Foundation, Moscou
2016
INVISIBLE WORLD, Carlos/Ishikawa, London
Rough House. A Woodmill & The Glue Factory, The Glue Factory, Glasgow
Rock, Paper, Scissor, Primo Piano, Paris
2015
The boys the girls and the political, Lisson Gallery, Londres
The Absolute Outside, Sport Klübü, Berlin
2014
happiness happening hunting, tongewölbe T25, Ingolstadt
The Mechanical Garden and Other Long Encores, Dilston Grove, CGP Londres
do blow it in the vector and don’t blow it in the vector, live event and screening as part of
Journal, ICA, Londres
don’t blow it in the vector, Kunsthalle Winterthur, Suisse
Frame, Frieze New York
Zoé de Soumagnat
Née en 1987 à Paris, France.
Vit et travaille à Paris.
Born in 1987 in Paris, France.
Lives and works in Paris.
FORMATION / EDUCATION
2011 – 2013 – MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London
2005 – 2010 – ENSBA, Paris
2008 – Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan
EXPOSITIONS RECENTES / RECENT EXHIBITIONS
2018
SILENT POETRY, Galerie Jerôme Pauchant, Paris
2017
Blues (solo show), Last Resort, Copenhague
It’s ok, to be K.O Darling, Under Construction gallery, Paris
L’odeur des sentiments, Hypercorps, Bruxelles
2016
That Feeling, curated by Domenico De Chirico, Eduardo Secci Contemporary, Florence
Festival de l’Inattention, curated by Sophie Lapalu, Glassbox, Paris
Le Domaine Enchanté, curated by Domenico De Chirico, Galeria Acappella, Naples
Beau Lauss, Last Resort, Copenhague
2015
21h30 (solo show), Galerie Jeanroch Dard, Bruxelles
How to drape the concrete, Galerie Jeanroch Dard, Bruxelles
TOAST, Où, Marseille
Des femmes en forme, Les Mouettes, Collectif RATS, Vevey
Alicia Tsigarides
Née en 1988 au Royaume-Uni.
Vit et travaille à Londres.
Born in 1988 in United Kingdom.
Lives and works in London.
FORMATION / EDUCATION
2014 – 2016 – MA Sculpture, Royal College of Art, Londres
2007 – 2011 – BA (Hons) Fine Art, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham
2006 – 2007 – Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham
EXPOSITIONS RECENTES / RECENT EXHIBITIONS
2018
Peer Forum Award, Camden Arts Centre, Londres
2017
Creekside Open 2017 – selected by Jordan Baseman
2016
Clearview Presents, Clearview Ltd, Londres
Show RCA, Royal College of Art, Londres
Sweat, Camden Arts Centre, Londres
The Kiss, Blyth Gallery, Londres
2015
Darkness & Obliteration: Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris
RCA Secret, Royal College of Art, Londres & Dubai
WIP Show, Royal College of Art, Londres
2014
RCA & Edinburgh College of Art, StudioRCA, Londres
Manuel Vieillot
Né en 1990 à Chalon-sur-Saône, France.
Vit et travaille à Paris.
Born in 1990 in Chalon-sur-Saône, France.
Lives and works in Paris.
FORMATION / EDUCATION
2015 – DNSAP, ENSBA, Paris
2014 – Séjour Erasmus d’un semestre à l’Universität der Kunst, Berlin
2013 – DNAP, ENSBA, Paris
2011 – DNAP Ecole Supérieure d’Art et Design de Saint Etienne
EXPOSITIONS RECENTES / RECENT EXHIBITIONS
2018
100 % Beaux-Arts, La Villette, Paris
Fin del mundo, Bagnoler, Bagnolet
2017
Agora, galerie R-2, Paris
Cabaret Courant Faible, Galerie Jeune Création, site des Grands Voisins, Paris
2016
Rob a robe, Doc, Paris
Vertige en terrain plat, Fondation Brownstone, Paris
Savoir/dessiner, Atelier 103b, Montreuil
Félicita, Ensba, Paris
2015
Etat des lieux, ateliers d’artistes rue Fournier, Clichy
2014
Learning Distance, le 6B, Saint-Denis
Mots croisés, La base-gallery, Paris, commissariat de Récit Editions
2013
Tendresse, Espace des arts sans frontière, Paris
Dardan Zhegrova
Né en 1991 à Prishtina, Kosovo.
Vit et travaille à Prishtina.
Born in 1991 in Prishtina, Kosovo
Lives and works in Prishtina.
EXPOSITIONS RECENTES / RECENT EXHIBITIONS
2018
Performance, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
2017
I travelled the world and the seven seas, Atheneum, Anvers
A Spaghetti Dress for world peace, Park View, Los Angeles
2016
Lucky Pierre (Sometimes I Dream Of a Casual Day), performance poétique, M, Prishtina
Europa war eine Frau, Galerie der Künstler, Munich
I kissed your kiss on your girlfriend’s cheek, it was still wet, FeKK short film festival, Ljubljana
2015
Where we meet sometimes at night, bright bright, long talk in white, LambdaLambdaLambda,
Prishtina
I should cheat the blue, after what we’ve been through, performance poétique, Soma Book
Station, Prishtina
You look like you know how to treat a body, performance poétique, with trio Heinz Herbert,
Gessnerallee Theater, Zurich
2014
HERE, Hajde – Artist in Residence, Villa Romana, Florence