Mademoiselle 21.07.2018 06.01.2019 - Art contemporain en Languedoc-Roussillon
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CENTRE RÉGIONAL D’ART CONTEMPORAIN OCCITANIE / PYRÉNÉES - MÉDITERRANÉE
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Mademoiselle
21.07.2018 > 06.01.2019
Curator: Tara LONDI
Rebecca Ackroyd
Bianca Argimon
Zoë Buckman
Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkacova
Charlotte Colbert
Pauline Curnier-Jardin
Sara Cwynar
Verena Dengler
Leni Dothan
Eliza Douglas
Mimosa Echard
Gery Georgieva
Celia Hempton
Suzanne Husky
Oda Jaune
Jesse Jones
Clementine Keith-Roach
Sanam Khatibi
Romana Londi
Tala Madani
Nevine Mahmoud
Zanele Muholi
Florence Peake
Mai-Thu Perret
Laure Prouvost
Mika Rottenberg
Lisa Rovner
Elsa Sahal
Tschabalala Self
Apolonia Sokol
Maria Thurn und Taxis
Anna Uddenberg
Ana Vega
Ambera Wellmann
Zoe Williams
Liv Wynter
Press contact Brunswick Arts : Regional Press contact
Leslie Compan / Roxane Latrèche Sylvie Caumet,
regionoccitanie@brunswickgroup.com sylvie.caumet@laregion.fr
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Mademoiselle 21.07.2018 > 06.01.2019 Mademoiselle, is a group exhibition that brings together a generation of international women artists who explore the issues and paradoxes of being a young woman today, through a variety of mediums and a broad range of subjects. Referencing France’s recent ban on the title ‘Mademoiselle’ and drawing upon the past years’ global interest in women’s rights, best characterized as the #MeToo phenomenon, the exhibition exposes the manifold heritage, expansion and evolution of feminist art strategies and theories today. The choice of selecting only women artists is not meant to reflect on the existence of ‘essential differences’ between art produced by men or women and assert the existence of a ‘female aesthetics’, but rather to explore the evolution of art forms and subject matters closely associated, if not initiated and introduced by the feminist movement of the 60s and 70s in the work of a generation of women artists who have benefited from its ground-breaking efforts. These include identity based art, body art, crafts-based art, and collaborative methods of working among others, as well as social/political concerns, such as the study of representation, ideology, and iconology of violence against women, discourses evaluating women’s position in the economics and power structures of labour, and a critique of traditional models of femininity. To establish a conceptual framework I employ art theorist Amelia Jones’s concept of ‘parafeminism’, ‘para’ meaning both alongside and beyond, extending but not superseding earlier feminisms. Jones argues that the most significant legacy of feminism is a broader articulation of the politics surrounding the body, as a lived and living manifestation of the political effects of being variously positioned (identified) in today’s global economies of information and imagery. Mademoiselle unfolds as a journey where each of the nine rooms is not only curated to address its own specific issues but designed to communicate with other rooms in the exhibition space highlighting the differences and polarities among the art works presented. The entrance room, displaying, among others, Elsa Sahal and Nevine Mahmoud’s erotically charged works representing female fragmented body parts as fetishized in the male gaze, speaks to the very last room in the space on the top floor, where the gaze is reversed by women’s sexual estimation of men and sexuality at large, as in the works of Celia Hempton, Anetta Mona Chisa and Lucia Tkacova. Sara Cwyner’s reflections on consumerism, “soft” sexism, power and obsolescence, among other musings, contrasts with Liv Wynter’s installation and performance piece in the next room, denouncing the empty rhetoric and indifference surrounding attacks on women in the private sphere. Sanam Khatib’s work, introducing the powerful dominance of female figures in paintings that evoke medieval tapestries, thus attempting to re-write art history from a female perspective, is positioned in a top floor section with views on the ground floor
area where Anna Uddenberg’s and Verena Dengler’s futuristic sculptures examine the
evolution and faith of female power and its symbolism. And so forth.
Mademoiselle elaborates on contemporary prototypes of femininity, women’s
oppression and suppression, social and personal relationships, collective rights,
individual empowerment by hedonism and narcissism, media visibility and a general
sexualization of culture. It reflects upon pervasive models of ‘youthitude and
femininitude’ - embodied in the concept of the Young-Girl in Tiqqun’s in ‘Preliminary
Material for a Theory of the Young Girl’- as desirable ideals in consumer society and
culture at large and as regulators of integration and success within it.
It is with a candid or calculated disregard for conventions and taboos that the artists
expose the convergence of diverse feminist histories with other aspects of identity
politics and social critique, supplanting the concept of a singular feminist narrative,
questioning the myth of shared womanhood, and identifying contemporary obstacles
for women’s emancipation.
All is questioned with a sensibility that is above all coloured with an unprecedented
brand of humor which seems not only to provide the critical distance to assess both the
gains and the losses of feminism but also to serve as a winning strategy to negotiate
new possibilities of feminist practices and ideology.
Tara Londi
Curator
Tara Londi is an Italian/Irish curator and art consultant with experience in London, Italy,
Switzerland, France and the US.
Since 2007, Tara curated and managed private collections of modern and contemporary
art and produced art exhibitions, cultural programs and film festivals as well as
documentaries and philanthropic events. In the past, Tara worked with Tate Britain, The
Wellcome Trust, Saatchi Gallery, Phaidon Press and ClientEarth among others.
Upcoming exhibitions include ‘1000 Miles An Hour’ and ‘Tell Them I Said No’, both in
London.
Legend of the cover: Mai-Thu Perret, The XII guerrillas, 2016.
Courtesy of the artist and Simon Lee Gallery, London / Hong Kong.
Photography: © Annik Wetter. © Mai-Thu Perret
Rebecca Ackroyd, NAVE !, 2018. Courtesy of the artist and Peres Projects, Berlin. Photography: © Matthias Kolb.
Gery Georgieva,
‘All Eyes on Me’ Make-Up Tutorial, 2017,
Video still. Courtesy of the artist.
Zanele Muholi,
Phaphama at Cassilhaus, North Carolina, 2016.
Courtesy of the artist, Yancey Richardson
Gallery, New York and Stevenson Gallery, Cape
Town and Johannesbourg.
Oda Jaune, Sans titre, 2017. Courtesy Galerie Templon, Paris-Brussels. Photography: © Isabelle Arthuis. Mika Rottenberg, Julie, 2003. Video single channel, 3min30, Edition of 5 + 1 AP. Courtesy Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris. © Mika Rottenberg
Tschabalala Self,
Princess, 2017.
Courtesy of the artist and Pilar
Corrias, London.
Photography: © Hugard and
Vanoverschelde.
Celia Hempton,
Nayan, India, 25th November 2015, 2015.
Courtesy of the artist and Southard Reid.
Photography: © Lewis Ronald
Sanam Khatibi,
Rivers in our mouths, 2017.
Private collection, France.
Courtesy of the artist and Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels
Photographie : © HV photography.
Laure Prouvost
WE ARE STARING AT YOU, 2017
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie
Nathalie Obadia, Paris/Brussels.
Anna Uddenberg,
Sisterunit on Fly, 2017
Courtesy of the artist; Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin.
Photography: © Gunter Lepkowski
Support from the Occitanie/Pyrénées-Méditerranée region promoting contemporary art In order to increase equality between citizens and the areas in which they live, the region is dedicating €96 M in order to support culture, the arts and heritage, as well as the Occitan and Catalan languages . The contem- porary art scene in the Occitanie/Pyrénées-Méditerranée region is extremely rich and dynamic. The region is committed to assisting its stakeholders in supporting organisations and making contemporary art as accessible as possible to everyone, with a desire for regional influence and ambition in its quality. The region continues to support ambitious plans to promote contemporary art. These include: - Direct governance of the Centre régional d'art contemporain (CRAC) in Sète and of the Musée régional d'art contemporain (MRAC) in Sérignan, with the expansion of exhibition areas at the MRAC, inaugurated in May 2016. - The region’s involvement in the Musée d’art moderne de Céret, as a founding member of the Public Institution for Cultural Cooperation. - Support for the creation of a regional network for contemporary art: The region favours a close-knit cultural network in the contemporary art sector, supporting over fifty or so venues in the Occitanie/Pyrénées-Méditerranée area for their activities to promote contemporary art, and for the benefit of artists and all members of the public. They provide support for networks of contracted contem- porary art venues, such as the Maison des Arts Georges Pompidou (Art Centre in Cajarc), the BBB Centre d’art in Toulouse, Le LAIT (The Tarn International Artistic Laboratory) in Albi, Le Carré d’art in Nîmes, and other non-contracted venues with an ambitious programme like, for example, the galleries AL/MA, Chantiers Boîte Noire, Aperto in Montpellier, Le Vallon du Villaret in Bagnols-les-Bains, the LAC (lieu d’art contemporain) in Sigean, the Lieu Commun in Toulouse, L’Atelier Blanc in Aveyron and more. These venues offer high-quality programmes and act as local intermediaries for community neighbourhoods, medium-sized cities and rural areas across the region. - Support for events: Support for the ‘Printemps de Septembre’ Festival in Toulouse, for example, or for more focused festivals in the area of photography notably, Visa pour l’image in Perpignan, Sportfolio in Narbonne, Images Singulières in Sète and L’Été Photographique in Lectoure, in the Gers region. - Direct support for creativity : The region is very involved in supporting visual artists via organisations that often fund the creation of works. Through individual grants for creation, there is support for artists’ books and artistic residencies (such as the Maisons Daura, the Ateliers des Arques in the Lot region, Caza d’Oro in Ariège, and Lumière d’encre in Céret.) Furthermore, the region is very involved in supporting artistic creativity in the area, through public procurement that corresponds to at least 1% of the budget. Several works have thus been acquired in secondary schools built in the Occitania/ Pyrenees – Mediterranean area, and at the Rivesaltes camp memorial. - Support for art galleries: The region enables galleries that have an association or business status to participate in contemporary art shows and fairs in France and abroad. This support for the economic development of the sector helps artistic ecosystems, which sustain visual artists, to function. Occitanie/Pyrénées-Méditerranée regional press contact: Yoann Le Templier 04 67 22 79 40| 06 38 30 70 83 | yoann.letemplier@laregion.fr Twitter: @presseoccitanie
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