EXHIBITION NEWS
Our exhibition space at the Friche belle de Mai is being renoved doesn't preclude Triangle to propose it's spring exhibition, still in Marseilles in a new place in the town center, Hors-les-murs. Taking place in an historical building in the Panier area, it's three 240m2 rooms will give the opportunity to present agroup show artist for the territory, some have been part of the Triangle residency program, and others were discovered by the director during her trips abroad, this year in California and Mexico.
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THE POSSESSED
Exhibition from May 3rd to June 2nd 2011
Opening on Wednesday 2nd 2011 at 7pm
HLM - 20 rue St Antoine – 13002 Marseille
with works by Tim Braden, Sophie Bueno-Boutellier, Cécile Dauchez, Guillaume Gattier, Theo Michael, Lidwine Prolonge, Fabrice Samyn, Analia Saban, Jocelyn Villemont
"The Possessed" proposes to observe the work of art as the place of negotiation between two dissenting voices, that of the world and the artist, through the allegory of the Medium. The Medium, person "able to perceive the messages of the spirits of the dead," achieves the feat of speaking for the other, at least as long as he convinces his audience of so. But as he faces the difficulty of transcribing the most humbly as possible those alien voices, he paradoxically starts standing as an author, driving apart from his simple role of servant.
The question is then not so much whether the Medium tells the truth, than to understand by what means and what strategies he is implementing his speech. The chimera of an objective artistic truth was generally dismissed in the 60's: from then, art rather seeks to report the increasing complexity of our subjectivities, opposed to a once unique world order. The artist asserts her/himself as a kind of conveyor of experiences, and whose virtuosity only can tell from her/his position as an impostor or a demiurge, like a medium particularly possessed by the spirits that visit him.
In the show are chosen artworks that reflect on this author / servant paradox : the word of the artist plays hide and seek with what she/he claims for. Heirs to a centuries-old art history (Analia Saban, Theo Michael), observers of Civilization (Jocelyn Villemont, Tim Braden), critic spokespersons of secret societies (Lidwine Prolonge, Guillaume Gattier) agnostic mystics (Sophie Bueno- Boutellier, Fabrice Samyn), or technologic ones (Cécile Dauchez)... the artists, like if they were possessed, often talk for something or someone else; and they always have the last word. When culminates this mediumistic schizophrenia, and the artist manages to combine subjectivity and universal truth until they can't part anymore, a work of art has the power to silence for a moment the clamor of our differences.