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OVERVIEW 1 PROGRAMME CONCORDE 5 SUSAN MEISELAS 02 | 06 – 05 | 20 | 2018 7 RAOUL HAUSMANN 02 | 06 – 05 | 20 | 2018 9 GORDON MATTA-CLARK 06 |0 5 – 09 | 23 | 2018 11 BOUCHRA KHALILI 06 | 05 – 09 | 23 | 2018 13 DOROTHEA LANGE 10 | 16 | 2018 – 01 | 27 | 2019 15 ANA MENDIETA 10 | 16 | 2018 – 01 | 27 | 2019 17 PROGRAMME SATELLITE 11 19 DAMIR OCKO ˇ 02 | 06 – 05 | 20 | 2018 20 DAPHNÉ LE SERGENT 06 | 05 – 09 | 23 | 2018 21 ALEJANDRO CESARCO 10 | 16 | 2018 – 01 | 27 | 2019 22 PROGRAMME CHÂTEAU DE TOURS Cover Susan Meiselas 23 LUCIEN HERVÉ Muchachos await counterattack by the Guard 11 | 18 | 2017 – 05 | 27 | 2018 Matagalpa, Nicaragua, 1978 © Susan Meiselas / Magnum Photos 24 DANIEL BOUDINET 06 | 16 – 10 | 28| 2018 Raoul Hausmann Untitled, 1931 © Raoul Hausmann Dorothea Lange 25 JEU DE PAUME Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936 © The Dorothea Lange Collection, the Oakland Museum of California, City of Oakland Bouchra Khalili The Tempest Society. Film, 60 min. 2017 © Bouchra Khalili Gordon Matta-Clark Graffiti: Linda, 1973 © Gordon Matta-Clark Ana Mendieta Untitled: Silueta Series, 1978 © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC. Courtesy Galerie Lelong, New York
Jeu de Paume | Concorde SUSAN MEISELAS MEDIATIONS 02 | 06 – 05 | 20 | 2018 The retrospective devoted to the American of their diffusion. Her novel approach is almost photographer Susan Meiselas (b. 1948, Baltimore) prophetic in a world where the diffusion of the image brings together a selection of works from the is facilitated by technology. 1970s to the present day. A member of Magnum Photos since 1976, Susan Meiselas questions As from 1997, Meiselas addresses each conflict in documentary practice. She became known through a different way according to the context. Kurdistan: her work in conflict zones of Central America In the Shadow of History (1997) is an archive of the in the 1970s and 1980s in particular due to the visual history of a people without a nation. Meiselas, strength of her colour photographs. Covering who gathered those elements all around the world many subjects and countries, from war to human in collaboration with Kurdish people, constructed her rights issues and from cultural identity to the work as an installation composed of a compilation of sex industry, Meiselas uses photography, film, documents, photographs and videos. video and sometimes archive material, as she relentlessly explores and develops narratives In 1992, Meiselas, asked to contribute to integrating the participation of her subjects an awareness campaign exposing domestic in her works. The exhibition highlights Susan violence, began by photographing crime scenes, Meiselas’ unique personal as well as geopolitical accompanying a team of police investigators, approach, showing how she moves through time and then selected a number of documents with and conflict and how she constantly questions the photographs from the archives of the San Francisco photographic process and her role as witness. Police Department. This research led her to create Archives of Abuse, collages of police reports and Her early works already illustrate her interest for photographs, exhibited in the city’s public spaces as documentary photography. Her very first project, posters on bus shelters. 44 Irving Street (1971), was a series of black and white portraits. Here, she used her camera as a means of For the retrospective at the Jeu de Paume, Susan interacting with the other tenants of the boarding Meiselas has created a new work, begun in 2015, house where she lived during her time as a student. based on her involvement with Multistory, an For Carnival Strippers (1972-1975), Meiselas followed organization based in the United Kingdom. This last strippers working in carnivals in New England series A Room of Their Own was shot in a refuge for over the course of three consecutive summers. The women and focuses on domestic violence. reportage is completed with audio recordings of the The installation includes five narrative video women, their clients and managers. works, featuring Meiselas’ photographs, first-hand testimonies, collages and drawings. From this period originates also Prince Street Girls (1975-1992), which was shot in the district known as The exhibition of the Jeu de Paume is the most Little Italy, in New York, where Susan Meiselas still comprehensive retrospective of her work ever held lives. She photographed a group of young girls over in France. It retraces her trajectory since the 1970s several years, capturing the changes that took place as a visual artist who associates her subjects to her in their lives as they were growing up, constituting approach and questions the status of images in a chronicle of the evolving relationship between the relation to the context in which they are perceived. young girls and the photographer. Three important series represent the central axe of the Catalogue Mediations. Texts by Ariella Azoulay, Eduardo exhibition: Nicaragua, El Salvador and Kurdistan. Made Cadava, Carles Guerra, Marianne Hirsch, Corey Keller, between the late 1970s and 2000, the works reveal Kristen Lubben, Isin Onol and Pia Viewing. the way in which the artist challenges and practises Co-edition Jeu de Paume / Damiani / Fundació Antoni photography. During the course of her extensive Tàpies, Barcelone. travels in Latin America, over a number of decades, in times of war and peace, Meiselas returns to the sites where she took the original photographs, using the images to find the people she had met in order to Curators: Carles Guerra and Pia Viewing pursue a record of their testimonies. With her project Mediations (1982), Susan Meiselas reveals how the Coproduction Jeu de Paume / Fundació Antoni meaning of images changes according to the context Tàpies, Barcelone 5
Susan Meiselas Muchachos await counterattack by the Guard, Matagalpa, Nicaragua, 1978 © Susan Meiselas / Magnum Photos Susan Meiselas Sandinistas at the walls of the Esteli National Guard headquarters: ‘Molotov Man’ Esteli‘, Nicaragua, July 16th, 1979 © Susan Meiselas / Magnum Photos Susan Meiselas Dee and Lisa, Mott Street, Little Italy, New York, 1976 © Susan Meiselas / Magnum Photos 6
Jeu de Paume | Concorde RAOUL HAUSMANN VISION IN ACTION 02 | 06 – 05 | 20 | 2018 To this day, Raoul Hausmann’s photography has also focused on humble objects, cheese graters, cane not had a dedicated museum exhibition in France. woven chairs, wicker baskets, which he transformed As a photographer, Hausmann has long remained through the use of light and shadow. Hausmann calls underrated and unheralded. However his key these experimentations ‘melanography‘. They strikingly position in 20th century avant-garde photography exemplify his definition of what an image is : ‘the has continually been re-evaluated and his dynamics of a living process‘. importance is widely acknowledged these days. Hausmann’s arrival in Ibiza in 1933, shortly after the We know Hausmann as the prominent artist of Reichstag fire, opened a new perspective. Fascinated Dada Berlin, as the author of assemblages, collages, by the peasant houses built in the shape of white lautgedichte, etc, yet the vicissitudes of history caused cubes, he began a photographic inventory of this the obliteration of his photography, an essential facet ‘architecture without architects‘. Photography became of his oeuvre. From 1927 onwards Hausmann became partly a study dedicated to vernacular architecture an avid and restless photographer. His photographic from an anthropological point of view. Hausmann also practice quickly became a cornerstone of his multi-faceted discussed notions such as ‘origin‘ or ‘race‘ that emerged reflections and activities, pushing him in a new direction in contemporary architectural circles. Fully integrated which culminated in his forced departure from Ibiza in in the island’s life, he lived in a ‘state of dream‘, as if 1936. outside time. Hausmann also pursued a project begun in Germany that revolved around two broad categories, Between 1927 and 1936, Hausmann engaged in a portraits and the vegetational or organic forms. discussion about the nature and the role of photography with August Sander. He published a body of theoretical The outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, in which he briefly texts and was part of a group that included such took part as a Republican (Ibiza being the first territory notorious figures as Raoul Ubac, Man Ray, Elfriede abandoned to the Francoists as early as 1936), marks Stegemeyer, and Lázló Moholy-Nagy. The latter once the beginning of his wandering across Europe. During stated : ‘All that I know, I’ve learnt it from Raoul‘. his exile, Hausmann no longer had the possibility of dedicating himself so passionately to photography. Considering Hausmann’s clandestine crossing of the century, it is no surprise that his photographic oeuvre was forgotten. Labelled a ‘degenerate‘ artist by the Nazis, Catalogue Raoul Hausmann. Photographs 1927-1937 he hastily left Germany in 1933. As an exile, Hausmann Texts by Cécile Bargues and Nick Cohn suffered the dispersion, and sometimes the destruction, Coedition Jeu de Paume / Le Point du Jour / Musée of his work. His photography was seldom displayed départemental d’art contemporain de Rochechouart and survived unnoticed until the late seventies. It was English version edited by Koenig long supposed to be lost, until an archive (now at the 264 pages, €39 Berlinische Galerie) was almost miraculously discovered at his daughter’s home after her death. The French photographic archive of Hausmann’s work, kept mainly at the Musée de Rochechouart and opened in 1985, continued to grow up until 2010. This institutionalization of his work has generated an on-going re-appraisal. Hausmann the photographer is astonishing. Curator: Cécile Bargues In contrast to the sarcastic and biting tone generally Associate Curator: David Barriet associated with his Dada period, his photographs are a means to pacification. They convey a sense of Coproduction Jeu de Paume / Le Point du Jour, reconciliation, a serenity that did not prevail before. In the Cherbourg late twenties Hausmann felt more and more oppressed in Berlin. He took long vacations in small villages by With the collaboration of Musée départemental the North Sea and the Baltic, villages described by d’art contemporain de Rochechouart, Musée d’art his partner Vera Broïdo as ‘shelters‘ and ‘hide-outs for moderne and contemporain de Saint-Étienne artists‘. There, he took photographs of the sand, the Métropole, Berlinische Galerie in Berlin, foam, the bogs, trees, naked bodies, curvy dunes, wheat, Musée national d’art moderne / Centre Georges weeds, insignificant things that dazzled him. His attention Pompidou, and private collections. 7
Raoul Hausmann Untitled (Vera Broïdo), circa 1931 © Berlinische Galerie / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn Raoul Hausmann Nude (Vera Broïdo, view from behind), 1927 © Musée départemental d’art contemporain de Rochechouart Raoul Hausmann Untitled (Dünenlandschaft), undated © Berlinische Galerie / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 8
Jeu de Paume | Concorde GORDON MATTA-CLARK ANARCHITECT 06 | 05 – 09 | 23 | 2018 Featuring one hundred artworks by Gordon Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect offers a renewed reading Matta-Clark, the exhibition Gordon Matta- of Gordon Matta-Clark’s work and the influence it has Clark: Anarchitect explores the importance of cast onto contemporary art and architecture. Matta-Clark’s practice towards a rethinking of architecture after modernism. Ranging a diversity of media that include photography, film and Catalogue Gordon Matta-Clark printmaking, the exhibition features a number Texts by Sergio Bessa, Cara Jordan, Xavier Wron of works related to contemporary urban culture Editions Jeu de Paume that further contextualize Gordon Matta-Clark’s 184 pages, €42 compelling critique of architecture. Soon after completing his studies at Cornell University School of Architecture (1962-1968), Matta-Clark moved to New York and started developing a series of artworks in situ that seemed to perform an anatomy of sorts onto the very body of the urban landscape by literally cutting structures apart and exhibiting the remnants as demonstration. An important part of these actions were realized in the South Bronx during a period marked by the borough’s steep economic decline prompted in great part by the massive exodus of its middle class to suburbia. As a consequence, a great number of abandoned buildings in the area provided raw material for Matta-Clark to intervene on. One of the most iconic series from this period, Bronx Cuts, became emblematic of Matta-Clark’s practice and was later expanded onto highly ambitious works such as Conical Intersect (Paris, 1975). In addition to undermining the vocabulary of modulation and repetition that characterized modernist architecture, Matta-Clark also recognized the growing tendency toward public interaction exemplified by the proliferation of graffiti. Despite its ancient roots in history, graffiti had become a worldwide phenomenon since the postwar particularly among impoverished post-industrial communities. Countering the bleakness of urban sprawl, graffiti became a means of expression for youth everywhere to rebel against conformity and ultimately the authority of the architect. Ironically, Matta-Clark’s cut-up method, borne out of the rubble of industrial era landscape, would later become extremely influential among younger architects, particularly those associated with deconstruction Curators: Sergio Bessa and Jessamyn Fiore theory, such as Frank Gehry, Peter Eisenman and Daniel Libeskind. More recently, with the reevaluation of urban Organized by The Bronx Museum of the Arts, culture, Matta-Clark’s works on graffiti have also proved in collaboration with the Jeu de Paume, made prescient in pointing to new directions to architecture as possible by the Henry Luce Foundation, National a growing number of designer are looking at graffiti for Endowment for the Arts, Graham Foundation for inspiration. Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Blue Rider Group at Morgan Stanley, David Zwirner and the Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark. 9
Gordon Matta-Clark Gordon Matta-Clark making Day’s End (Pier 52), 1975 © 2017 Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York and David Zwirner, New York. Gordon Matta-Clark Graffiti: Linda, 1973 © 2017 Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York and David Zwirner, New York. Gordon Matta-Clark and Gerry Hovagimyan working on Conical Intersect, 1975 Photo Harry Gruyaert © 2017 Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York and David Zwirner, New York. 10
Jeu de Paume | Concorde BOUCHRA KHALILI 06 | 05 – 09 | 23 | 2018 The Jeu de Paume is pleased to present an and Kassel (2017), the 8th Göteborg Biennale (2015), important exhibition devoted to the French- the 55th Venice Biennale (2013), the Palais de Tokyo Moroccan artist Bouchra Khalili (b. Casablanca, Triennale, Paris (2012), the 18th Biennale of Sydney (2012) 1975). The artist’s videos, photographs and and the 10th Sharjah Biennale (2011). serigraphs are built on and around language, orality, subjectivity and geographic explorations. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and Each of her projects is designed as a platform, prizes: Abraaj Group Art Prize (2014), Sam Art Prize investigating strategies of resistance, elaborated (2014), DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Programme(2012), Vera List and narrated by members of minority groups, on Center for Arts and Politics Fellowship (The New School, the margins of society. New York, 2011-2013), Villa Médicis Hors-les Murs (2010), Videobrasil Residency Award (2009), Bourse Image- Through her artwork, Bouchra Khalili confronts subjectivity Mouvement (CNAP, 2008), and the Prix Louis Lumière and collective history in order to question the complex (2005). relationships between colonial and postcolonial history, contemporary migration—their geographies and narratives—and the resulting imaginary world. Her solo A catalogue has been published for the exhibition. exhibition at the Jeu de Paume brings together, for the first time in France, a large selection of her work from the past ten years. The exhibition features The Seaman (2012), a video filmed in the port of Hamburg; The Mapping Journey Project (2008-2011), a map of eight clandestine journeys across the Mediterranean; as well as the series of Speeches (2012-2013): a trilogy of videos—Mother Tongue, Words on Streets and Living Labour—, which focus respectively on the mother tongue spoken in Paris and its suburbs, citizenship in Genoa, and immigrant workers in New York. The photographic series Wet Feet, executed in Miami in 2012, which examines the traces left by migrants who were successful in getting into America via Florida, and The Tempest Society, presented at Documenta 2017, add to the wealth of this monographic exhibition, which also includes a new work by the artist, produced especially for the Jeu de Paume. Raised between France and Morocco, and based in Berlin, Bouchra Khalili studied cinema at the Sorbonne Nouvelle and visual arts at the École nationale supérieure d’arts in Paris-Cergy. With the artist Yto Barrada, she is the co-founder of the Cinémathèque de Tanger, inaugurated in 2006. Her work has been the focus of numerous solo exhibitions, notably at the MoMA, New York (2016), the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2015), the MACBA, Barcelona (2015), the Kunsthaus, Zurich (2015), the New Museum, New York (2014), the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2014), the Curators: Juan Antonio Álvarez Reyes, Marta Gili, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Toronto (2013), the PAMM, Jeanette Pacher Miami (2013), and the DAAD Gallery, Berlin (2013). Co-produced by the Jeu de Paume / CAAC – The artist’s work has also featured in numerous Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville / international arts events: the 14th Documenta in Athens La Sécession, Vienna 11
Bouchra Khalili The Tempest Society. Film, 60 min. 2017 © Bouchra Khalili / Galerie Polaris, Paris Bouchra Khalili Wet Feet: Lost Boats, 2012 © Bouchra Khalili / Galerie Polaris, Paris Bouchra Khalili Speeches-Chapter 1: Mother Tongue. Vidéo, 25 min. 2012 © Bouchra Khalili / Galerie Polaris, Paris 12
Jeu de Paume | Concorde DOROTHEA LANGE POLITICS OF SEEING 10 | 16 | 2018– 01 | 27 | 2019 In the autumn of 2018, the Jeu de Paume presents The exhibition at the Jeu de Paume examines from a new a retrospective devoted to Dorothea Lange perspective the work of this renowned American artist, (1895-1965), one of the twentieth century’s most whose legacy continues to be felt today. Highlighting the important photographers. Drawing from the artistic qualities and the strength of the artist’s political archives of the Oakland Museum of California, convictions, this exhibition allows audiences to rediscover ‘Dorothea Lange. Politics of seeing‘ is the first the importance of Dorothea Lange’s work. exhibition to focus on the extraordinary emotional power of the artist’s work and to present her work produced during the Great Depression, the Second World War and post-war America, from the A catalogue has been published for the exhibition. perspective of her political activism. Along with the writings of John Steinbeck, Dorothea Lange’s photographs are an example of great works of art inspired by hard times: an image like Migrant Mother takes on a mythical dimension by becoming the symbol of an entire era. When the Great Depression struck in 1929, Lange instinctively turned her lens towards the victims of the recession and took photographs that would attract the attention of individuals like Paul S. Taylor, a labour economist at the University of California. The two quickly became a couple and began a collaboration, documenting the plight of struggling workers in the Dust Bowl for the governmental agencies of the New Deal. The Dust Bowl was situated in the heart of America’s agricultural region, in the Midwest, and was ravaged by drought and terrible dust storms. Following the Great Depression, Dorothea Lange continued to practise photography and to document the major issues of the day, including the internment of Japanese-American families during the Second World War; the wartime migration of African-American and Hispanic families to California; the criminal justice system through the work of a county public defence lawyer, as well as environmental destruction and urban development in the post-war years. If Dorothea Lange’s iconic images of the Great Depression Curators: Drew Heath Johnson and Pia Viewing are well known, her photographs of Japanese-Americans interned during the war were only published in 2006, « Dorothea Lange. Politics of Seeing » is organized when they were shown for the first time, in France, in an by the Oakland Museum of California. exhibition at the Jeu de Paume. They perfectly illustrate The European presentation has been produced how Dorothea Lange made use of intimate and poignant in collaboration with Barbican Art Gallery, London images throughout her career, to denounce injustices and and Jeu de Paume, Paris. change public opinion. The Neuflize OBC Bank, historic sponsor of the Jeu Almost 130 photographs are organized by theme so as de Paume, and FIDAL chose to bring their support to better demonstrate the connections between Lange’s for the exhibition « Dorothea Lange. Politics of photography and her socio-political activism. In addition, Seeing » in Paris. a selection of personal items, including unedited contact sheets, field notes, historic objects and videos allow This exhibition is made possible through the public to situate her work within the context of this a contribution from the Terra Foundation troubled period. for American Art. 13
Dorothea Lange Gas station, Kern County, California (Lettuce Strike), 1938 © The Dorothea Lange Collection, the Oakland Museum of California, City of Oakland Dorothea Lange Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936 © The Dorothea Lange Collection, the Oakland Museum of California, City of Oakland Portrait of Dorothea Lange by Paul S. Taylor Dorothea Lange Lange in Texas on the Plains, circa 1935 © The Dorothea Lange Collection, the Oakland Museum of California, City of Oakland 14
Jeu de Paume | Concorde ANA MENDIETA 10 | 16 | 2018– 01 | 27 | 2019 The exhibition Ana Mendieta (Havana, 1948 - conducted with a brutal honesty. The second, Energy New York, 1985) is devoted to the film work of Charge, explores the theme of the tree of life, a favourite this Cuban artist. Bringing together some twenty topic of Ancient mythology. Anima, Silueta de Cohetes was or so films and a selection of photographs, produced in Oaxaca, Mexico in the summer of 1976. The the exhibition allows audiences to discover film retraces, by means of a poetic metaphor, the passage the greatest ensemble of the artist’s work ever of time and the resulting transformation of the physical presented in a single location. body. Ana Mendieta is widely considered one of the most In her artistic practice, Mendieta uses the four basic talented and original artists of the post-war era. The elements—earth, water, wind and fire—to evoke the strata recent exhibitions devoted to her work in Europe (London, of history and layers of multiple meaning. In 1978, she Prague, Salzburg, Turin and Umeå) revealed the power produced the films Untitled: Silueta Series, Silueta de Arena of her artistic vision and the influence of her work on and Untitled: Silueta Series. While Untitled: Silueta Series the generations of photographers that came after her. continues the exploration of the tree of life theme in Mendieta’s work continues to have a persuasive impact the image of a burning tree from which glowing hands on a wide public, and can be appreciated by all age magically appear, Silueta de Arena evokes the boundary groups. between souvenir and experience. Untitled: Silueta Series reveals Mendieta’s interest in the ritualistic aspect of art During her brief career, from 1971 to 1985, Ana Mendieta and the transformation of the earth into a sacred space. produced a remarkable body of work, including In Volcán (1979), the artist makes the form of the volcano drawings, installations, performances, photographs and a metaphor for the earth as a place of reconciliation sculptures. Lesser known, her production of films and and disintegration. Birth (Gunpowder Works), from 1981, videos is particularly impressive and prolific: her 104 films is a wonderfully graphic film in which the dried, cracked produced between 1971 and 1981, make Ana Mendieta mud and the light of the Iowan landscape give birth to a one of the lea dream of artistic magic and power. ding figures in the practice of multidisciplinary visual arts. Thanks to new research documents, the exhibition at the The three last film works in the exhibition, all made Jeu de Paume repositions the moving image at the centre in 1981, form a trilogy on the relationship between of her work, through the recurring themes that these displacement, return and reconciliation. Esculturas Rupestres explore, such as nature, memory, history and the passage (Rupestrian Sculptures) is the epic cycle of sculptures that of time, which are often explored through the relationship Mendieta carved into the limestone walls of the Cuevas of the body and the land. de Jaruco, in Havana. A journey through real and metaphorical time, this film marks Mendieta’s return to The exhibition features Moffitt Building Piece and Sweating Cuba and her link with the ancient myths of the Jaruco Blood, as well as two films produced in 1974, in which Caves. Untitled takes place on the beaches of Guanabo, the artist can be seen writing out bloody declarations by in Havana. Here, Mendieta speaks of her nostalgia for hand: Blood Writing and Blood Sign. These were produced her homeland and the extended time of separation. in response to the rape and murder of Sarah Ann Ottens, Ochún is a video produced off the coast of Key Biscayne, a student at the University of Iowa, in 1973. in Florida. The Silueta figure here points towards Cuba, the waters between Florida and Cuba rippling through its In the 1970s, Mendieta travelled to Mexico in the summer form. Ochún, who owes her name to a Santería goddess, months where she produced a number of works. The transforms the pain of separation into a restrained poem exhibition presents Creek, Silueta del Laberinto and Burial made of colours, light, movement, and sound. Pyramid, all produced in Mexico in the summer of 1974 and in which, she defines her unique body-land aesthetic, joining her body to the land in an exploration of history A catalogue has been published for the exhibition. and memory. Also from 1974, the film Mirage symbolically recounts the story of Mendieta’s separation from her family in Cuba, by means of a dual narrative relating the mother-daughter relationship. Curators: Lynn Lukas and Howard Oransky Two works from 1975 are also presented: Blood Inside Produced by Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University Outside and Energy Charge. The first is a stunning of Minnesota in collaboration with the Jeu de psychological study of autonomy and vulnerability, Paume 15
Ana Mendieta Creek, 1974. Film Super 8, colour, silent © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC. Courtesy Galerie Lelong, New York Ana Mendieta Sweating Blood, 1973. Film Super 8, colour, silent © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC. Courtesy Galerie Lelong, New York Ana Mendieta Anima, Silueta de Cohetes (Firework Piece), 1976. Film Super 8, colour, silent © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC. Courtesy Galerie Lelong, New York 16
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Jeu de Paume | Satellite 11 NEWSPEAK_ SATELLITE 11 02 | 06 | 2018 – 01 | 21 | 2019 Background info: three exhibitions will also be presented Each year, the Satellite Programme is at the CAPC and the Museo Amparo entrusted to an independent curator, de Puebla in 2018. The exhibitions charged with designing and organizing of the Satellite Programme are three exhibitions at the Jeu de Paume. accompanied by three publications. For the 11th edition of this programme, Each year the Jeu de Paume and the the Jeu de Paume continues its CAPC Musée d’art contemporain de partnership with the CAPC Musée d’art Bordeaux invite independent graphic contemporain de Bordeaux and joins designers to create the graphic or forces with a new partner: the Museo visual identity of the three volumes Amparo de Puebla, Mexico. Agnès associated with the programme of Violeau, an independent curator based exhibitions. The graphic design for in Paris, has been invited to curate this Satellite 11 was done by Jérémy programme, entitled ‘Newspeak_’. The Glâtre. Agnès Violeau © Aurélie Haberey ‘The limits of my language mean the limits of my world’ The minimalistic Newspeak model of language functions Ludwig Wittgenstein therefore as a language-screen, constructed on affect, ideology, rhetoric and absolute precision. Language At a time when Google is working on the creation of a becomes the obstacle that lies between truth and ‘Metaverse’, a future world made up of several layers of misrepresentation. different realities, affecting both the public and private spheres, language and its usage are more than ever at Pointing towards an ever shorter distance between the centre of the debate. the information given and its interpretation, but also the new possibility of navigating between words and Reflecting the new system of media discourse, this ‘theatre signs, ‘Newspeak_’ attempts to create a cosmogony of word-play’1 has been built at the dawn of the 21st of language, a laboratory of thought, and a form of century, based on abbreviations (Twitter), neologisms resistance through the field of language and exhibition. (Brexit, Frexit, etc.) and post-truths (alternative facts). The 11th edition of the Satellite Programme consists of Agnès Violeau work by artists Damir Očko, Daphné Le Sergent and Alejandro Cesarco, engaging public discourse as a strategy towards individuation. The three exhibitions Agnès Violeau, b. 1976, lives and works in Paris. can be added to the growing critical analysis of today’s She is an independent exhibition curator and art critic. diminished thinking2, offering a hypothetical response to Her themes of predilection are exhibition production and the limits of a formatted, segmented and pared-down the potentialities and boundaries of language. language. In the era of the digital revolution and the proliferation of technology, where even public speech, relayed by the media, makes use of social and IT networks as a 1. Christophe P. Lagier, Le Théâtre de la parole-spectacle : Jacques new agora, the question of a reduced, formatted, and Audiberti, René de Obaldia and Jean Tardieu, Birmingham (US) Summa simplified language has once again been raised. This Publications, 2000. geopolitical transformation is reminiscent of a linguistic 2. In 1977, Pierre Bourdieu spoke of a ‘relationship to a derealized landscape imagined in a work of literature as early as world’. 3. Wikipedia provides a loose interpretation of the author’s definition, as 1949. Newspeak is the official language of Oceania, a outlined in the novel. fictional state invented by George Orwell in his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Wikipedia defines Newspeak Curator: Agnès Violeau as ‘a controlled language, of restricted grammar and limited vocabulary, a linguistic design meant to limit Exhibitions co-produced by the Jeu de Paume, the […] freedom of thought,’3 allowing people to be easily CAPC Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux and manipulated by the mass media, and television in the Museo Amparo de Puebla, Mexico. particular. The Amis du Jeu de Paume and the CAPC This lexical and syntactical simplification of language contribute to the production of artworks and makes critical thought difficult, if not impossible. publications for the Satellite Programme. 18
Jeu de Paume | Satellite 11 DAMIR OCKO ˇ DICTA 02 | 06 – 05 | 20 | 2018 Damir Očko was born in 1977 in Zagreb (Croatia), A catalogue has been published for the exhibition. where he lives and works today. His work is an Co-edited by the Jeu de Paume, CAPC Musée d’art invitation to explore the intricacies of language contemporain de Bordeaux and Museo Amparo de and the way in which the neurophysiological Puebla, Mexico. Bilingual edition / French-English system generates it so poetically. His various works 15 x 21 cm, 64 pages, €14. fall within a corpus of ideas where the elements Also available in EPUB format for €6.99 respond to each other, vacillating between desire and deprivation, reality and fiction. Curator: Agnès Violeau Damir Očko has been the focus of numerous solo exhibitions, notably at the Dazibao, Montreal (2016), An exhibition co-produced by the Jeu de the Croatian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale (2015), Paume, the CAPC Musée d’art contemporain de the Künstlerhaus Halle für Kunst & Medien in Graz, the Bordeaux and the Museo Amparo de Puebla, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios in Dublin (2014), the Palais Mexico. de Tokyo in Paris (2012), the Kunsthalle in Düsseldorf (2011), the Kunstverein in Leipzig (2010), and the Museum The Amis du Jeu de Paume and the CAPC of Contemporary Art in Zagreb (2005). His work has contribute to the production of artworks for the also been featured in a number of collective exhibitions Satellite Programme. at the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York (2016), the Württembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart (2015), the Kunsthalle in Vienna, the Lambert Collection in Avignon, the Plateau Collection in Paris (2014), and the MUDAM, Luxembourg (2013). Orwell’s Newspeak, which advocated a non-distantiation from the facts, grouped together three types of vocabulary. Language within the B Group concerned rhetoric or political discourse, and is the breeding ground for the project proposed by Damir Očko. The exhibition at the Jeu de Paume revolves around the film Dicta (the plural of ‘dictum’, coming from the Latin, meaning an undisputed truth). Following Dicta I, based on the autobiographical writings of Bertolt Brecht’s Telling the Truth: 5 Difficulties (1934), written when the latter fled the German regime, Dicta is built around a series of safewords. Influenced by Dadaism and conceptual art, the film takes the form of a collage and regroups an ensemble of inaudible and contradictory statements, as obscure as the images. The film evokes epic theatre and Brechtian distancing which awakens the viewer’s political consciousness. Damir Očko provides explanations in the form of asides that make the viewer an ‘enlightened observer’ despite the film’s challenging visuals and sound. The artist filmed the protagonists behind a group so that the figures of the performers blend into the crowd and disappear. The film addresses the notions of obstruction, obliteration, the loss of language function, but also political mimicry. According to Aristotle, language was an instrument, stabilizing the relationship to reality by means of knowledge. He places man in a community, making him a political animal. An attempt at emancipation is formulated here in words and images, offering a definition of today’s language as an Damir Očko act of resistance. Dicta reveals the ordinary dominance Dicta I, photo collage, 2017. Courtesy of the artist and of passivity, opening the door to a possible psychic Kasia Michalski Gallery, Warsaw, Poland. democracy. © Damir Ocko 19
Jeu de Paume | Satellite 11 DAPHNÉ LE SERGENT GEOPOLITIC OF OBLIVION 06 | 05 – 09 | 23 | 2018 Born in Seoul, South Korea in 1975, Daphné Le Sergent lives and works in Paris. Her work contains an artistic and theoretical exploration of the notions of scissions and borders. This work has led her to think about the concepts of arrangement and strategies in contemporary artistic creation. She makes use of fragments of texts and poems, segmented drawings, photographic diptychs and video sequences, all of which are intended to challenge the subjectivity that underpins the image, connecting one element to the other. These fragments highlight a connection which paradoxically maintains a sense of separation. In Le Sergent’s work, the ‘I’ seems to be the thing that separates the world into two parts, in the manner of a partition or dividing wall, as thin as a line of text. A selection of the artist’s video works are part of the Collectif Jeune Cinéma and have been shown in various venues and events, including: ‘The 11th Gwangju Biennale MegaExhibition’, Gwangju (2016); ‘Republic of 0-Sang’, South Korea (2016); ‘L’alternativa’, Barcelona Independent Film Festival (2015), ‘Being on the Move: Reflections on Migration’, Seoul, Litmus Art Center (2015), etc. A catalogue has been published for the exhibition. Co-edited by the Jeu de Paume, CAPC Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux and Museo Amparo de Puebla, Mexico. Bilingual edition / French-English 15 x 21 cm, 64 pages, €14. Also available in EPUB format for €6.99 Curator: Agnès Violeau An exhibition co-produced by the Jeu de Paume, the CAPC Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux and the Museo Amparo de Puebla, Mexico. The Amis du Jeu de Paume and the CAPC Daphné Le Sergent contribute to the production of artworks for the Politique, visage, 2013 Satellite Programme. © Daphné Nan Le Sergent 20
Jeu de Paume | Satellite 11 ALEJANDRO CESARCO SATELLITE 11 10 | 16 | 2018 – 01 | 27 | 2019 Born in Montevideo (Uruguay), Alejandro Cesarco lives and works in New York. His work unfolds as a series of deductions that often indicate an elsewhere or an off-camera, bearing witness to the experience of reality in all its discontinuity. Alejandro Cesarco describes his practice as addressing questions of “repetition, narrative, and the practices of reading and translating.” Artworks take the form of film and video, prints and photographs, text and drawings, among others, and evince a deep engagement with the histories and aesthetics of Conceptual Art. With a poetic, sometimes romantic, other times melancholic air, they represent a sustained investigation into time, memory, and how meaning is felt. Many of Cesarco’s artistic strategies point to the influence of literature on his practice, structurally and conceptually, directly and indirectly. Certain works take the form of the index, the dedication, and the table of contents. Texts by authors such as Robert Walser, Jorge Luis Borges, Marguerite Duras, and Clarice Lispector are quoted in structure or subject matter. A similar “personal canon” could be drawn from the fields of cinema and art. Over all, Cesarco’s methodologies variously mine the possibilities of tropes and archetypes, inspiration and appropriation, genre and style. His last solo exhibitions have included: ‘A Portrait, a Story, and an Ending’, Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland (2013); ‘Alejandro Cesarco’, MuMOK, Vienna (2012); ‘Words Applied to Wounds’, Murray Guy, New York (2012); ‘A Common Ground’, Uruguayan Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale. A catalogue has been published for the exhibition. Co-edited by the Jeu de Paume, CAPC Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux and Museo Amparo de Puebla, Mexico. Bilingual edition / French-English 15 x 21 cm, 64 pages, €14. Also available in EPUB format for €6.99 Curator: Agnès Violeau An exhibition co-produced by the Jeu de Paume, the CAPC Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux and the Museo Amparo de Puebla, Mexico. The Amis du Jeu de Paume and the CAPC Alejandro Cesarco contribute to the production of artworks for the Untitled (Remembered), 2014 Satellite Programme. © Courtesy of the artist and Tanya Leighton, Berlin. 21
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Jeu de Paume | Château de Tours LUCIEN HERVÉ THE GEOMETRY OF LIGHT 11 | 18 | 2017 – 05 | 27 | 2018 If he collaborated with some of the other great architects of the twentieth century, the photographer Lucien Hervé (1910-2007) is above all famous for his work with Le Corbusier. A great constructor of the image, a single detail was all he needed to depict the ensemble, and he was capable of expressing the space simply by means of the contrast between light and shadow. Lucien Hervé was also a committed observer of the world and of humanity however, seeking everywhere ‘the presence of the living’. His photographs taken from above or at an angle allowed him to play with the geometry of the image, and tended towards abstraction. This exhibition at the Château de Tours pays tribute to him by juxtaposing, as he did, ‘the universal and the timeless’, the ancient and the modern, the abstract and the human. A contemporary of some of the great Hungarian photographers—André Kertész and Brassaï—, as well as Robert Capa and Nicolás Muller—both of whom were recently exhibited at the Château de Tours—part of Lucien Hervé’s work remains unknown to the wider public. Despite his passion for architecture, this was never his sole subject or exclusive focus, Lucien Hervé also sought to represent in his work humanity and traces of humanity on the world, all the while avoiding the anecdotal. For example, he photographed living and working conditions in places like France, India and South America. He captured children and old men who moved him, as well as the human gestures or movements that allowed him to play with the geometry of the image. His quest for beauty, whether through architecture or humanity, often culminated in the abstraction of his subjects. Catalogue Lucien Hervé. The Geometry of light 192 pages, €35 Coedition Jeu de Paume / Liénart Éditions Bilingual French-English. Texts by Imola Gebauer, Zaha Hadid, Michel Ragon, Lucien Hervé Lucien Hervé Curator: Imola Gebauer Lucien Hervé, Haute Cour (High Court), Chandigarh, India (architect: Le Corbusier), 1955 Exhibition organized by the Jeu de Paume in © FLC - ADAGP / J. Paul Getty Trust, collaboration with the City of Tours The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles 23
Jeu de Paume | Château de Tours DANIEL BOUDINET 06 | 16 – 10 | 28 | 2018 Daniel Boudinet (1945-1990) was one of the first artists to emancipate himself from photojournalism, playing an important role in the photographic renaissance of the 1970s. His personal work explored the renewed use of colour. Used primarily for architectural views, colour in his work was employed to reveal the majesty and mystery of the photographic subject. His technical mastery may be seen in his night photographs, taken of the city, but also of gardens and nature, encouraging contemplation. Also a portraitist, Daniel Boudinet photographed and rubbed shoulders with the artists and intellectuals of his time, including figures like Roland Barthes. Although very involved in the arts scene of the 1970s and 1980s, Daniel Boudinet developed a highly independent body of work. From his early career, he had an interest in architecture and the landscape: after a first book in which he documented the transformation of the urban landscape (Bagdad-sur-Seine), he then focused on the opposite, turning his attention to architectural vestiges or ruins. Thanks to his use of long exposure techniques, the viewer’s gaze can linger on the proportions, texture and harmony of the subjects. Interested by the effects of light, especially at night, he exploited the possibilities of the medium in order to construct, through colour, seductive yet slightly surreal spaces. A catalogue has been published for the exhibition. Curators: Christian Caujolle and Mathilde Falguière Daniel Boudinet Tombe Brion, Vue de l’enceinte à la frise de carrelage doré, Exhibition co-produced by the Jeu de Paume and 1983 the Médiathèque de l’architecture et du patrimoine, © Donation Daniel Boudinet - Médiathèque de l’architecture in collaboration with the City of Tours. et du patrimoine 24
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Jeu de Paume | 1 place de la Concorde, Paris JEU DE PAUME PHOTOGRAPHY – VIDEO – CONTEMPORARY ART – CINEMA – ONLINE CREATION A historic venue dedicated to the image located in the heart of the Tuileries Gardens The Jeu de Paume is an iconic cultural institution located in the Tuileries Gardens. It has gained an international reputation as an art centre that exhibits and promotes all forms of mechanical and electronic imagery (photography, cinema, video, installation, online creation, etc.) from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It produces and coproduces exhibitions but also organises film programmes, symposiums and seminars, as well as educational activities. The Jeu de Paume also publishes a number of art publications each year. With its high-profile exhibitions of established, little-known and emerging artists (especially via the Satellite program), this venue ties together different narrative strands, mixing the historic and the contemporary. Well-known artists (Richard Avedon, Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, Philippe Halsman, etc.) as well as emerging figures (Omer Fast, Oscar Muñoz, Helena Almeida, Ali Cherri, etc.) can all be seen in this space that attracts an increasingly large and varied audience each year. Since 2007, the Jeu de Paume has been working to develop its Internet presence and has been experimenting by developing a dedicated “virtual space” with a program of special web-based projects and thematic shows entrusted to curators specialising in the digital arts. Film cycles are devised to accompany many of the exhibitions, or simply to pay tribute to major figures of the independent film-making scene in France and abroad. Specialising in documentary, experimental, art- house film and autobiography, with an emphasis on previously unshown work, this program helps to create bridges between film-makers and artists. All activities at the Jeu de Paume are driven by an overriding desire to draw parallels and engage a dialogue between the various strands of visual culture and images, leading to a re-evaluation and reinvention of meaning in all fields The history of the Jeu de Paume of thought. Talks, seminars and symposia explore the questions and themes raised by the exhibitions, helping to Built under Napoleon III in the spectacular Tuileries Gardens open up new spaces for critical interaction. to house an indoor sports court, the Jeu de Paume has hosted exhibitions since the early 20th century, and contemporary art The Jeu de Paume’s modular space and versatile was first displayed here in 1922. Works of art confiscated from educational program helps it respond to the different Jewish families were stored and sorted in it during the German expectations arising from its activities, and confirms its Occupation, when it became the nexus of activities that would ambition to provide all of its users with an active hub and have remained unknown had it not been for the determination resource centre for education in photographic imagery of the assistant curator Rose Valland. After WWII, it housed the and the history of representation and the visual arts. famous Impressionist Museum until 1986, before being completely Tours and courses, initiatives for students and teachers, renovated by the architect Antoine Stinco, and becoming a and activities for families and young visitors, are the main contemporary arts centre in 1991. It has been a major venue for components of its educational programme. The emphasis photography and the image since 2004. here is on participation rather than contemplation, exchange rather than the “colonisation of knowledge,” Françoise Bonnefoy, Spirit of place, 64 pages. and sharing rather than the monopolisation of ideas. Retail price €6.50. Available in both French and English. Jeu de Paume © Jeu de Paume, photo Adrien Chevrot 26
Jeu de Paume | 1 place de la Concorde, Paris A NEW SPACE FOR THE BOOKSHOP A top-of-the-range bookshop The Jeu de Paume bookshop has undergone a facelift! Visitors can browse the impressive selection of books on offer in a larger, renovated space that opens onto the hall. Since its inauguration, the Jeu de Paume has boasted a bookshop that allows visitors to discover works that extend and explore its exhibition program, with books available on the artists presented, as well as publications exploring the transversality of visual culture and the image. The bookshop boasts around five thousand international titles specialising in the visual arts, contemporary photography and film, and new technologies. It also houses a large selection of reviews and journals on topics such as aesthetics, art theory and art history. Throughout the year, the bookshop organizes a variety of book signings and discussions with artists and authors, in line with its exhibition program and new publications. The bookshop also has a gift shop section, selling items relating to the exhibitions, as well as a series of art objects, sold exclusively at the Jeu de Paume. ONLINE MAGAZINE http://lemagazine.jeudepaume.org IMAGES / POINTS OF VIEW / PERFORMANCES / GUEST BLOGGERS / PORTFOLIOS / VIDEO / PORTRAITS / NOTEBOOKS / CONVERSATIONS / BEHIND THE SCENES... The Jeu de Paume online magazine has become a key forum for debate between artists, historians, philosophers, exhibition curators, film directors and art critics, not forgetting the general art-loving public. It continues on from the Jeu de Paume’s exhibitions and cultural activities, proposing multiple points of view on the image and promoting an exchange of knowledge in this field. Thanks to more than 300 multimedia articles, it facilitates new connections between the creative world and intellectual reflection. In addition to the contributions of our guest personalities, the magazine continues to follow a creative, prospective, pedagogical and thought-provoking editorial line with video portraits, analyses of works of art, previously untranslated texts, and texts that were no longer available, filmed performances and virtual exhibition tours with a guided commentary, critical essays and video retransmissions of the Jeu de Paume’s seminars… The Jeu de Paume online magazine is a vital element in our constant search for a crossdisciplinary approach to the study of the image and visual culture. Bookshop of the Jeu de Paume © Jeu de Paume, photo Adrien Chevrot Homepage of the online magazine 27
Jeu de Paume | 1 place de la Concorde, Paris JEU DE PAUME/MUSÉE DE L’ORANGERIE Comparative tour of the twins in the Jardin des Tuileries: A shared history, individual destinies The Jeu de Paume and the Musée de l’Orangerie are continuing their partnership with two joint events on Saturday afternoons. An ideal way to enjoy these two iconic institutions, both located in the Jardins des Tuileries, and to learn more about their common history. The triangular terraces built by Le Nôtre constitute the two right-angled foundations on which the Orangerie and Jeu de Paume were built. In 1909, the Jeu de Paume became a gallery for exhibiting artworks and then, in 1922, was made into an annexe of the musée du Luxembourg for presenting contemporary foreign schools. In the same year, with the formal confirmation of Claude Monet’s donation to the French state of his monumental ensemble of Water Lilies, work began in the Orangerie to create a special space for their installation. Today, the Musée de l’Orangerie is an outstanding museum for the art of the early 20th century and the Jeu de Paume is an art centre renowned for its coverage of photography and the image in the 20th and 21st centuries. The dialogue between these two institutions and their programmes is continuing and developing in new directions in accordance with the changing relationships between painting and photography in today’s art. Visits on the 2nd Saturday of the month at 2.30 pm Starts at the Musée de l’Orangerie Duration of the comparative visit: 3.5 hours Commentaries by Réunion des Musées Nationaux and Jeu de Paume lecturers Jeu de Paume, view from the Place de la Concorde Price: €18.50/Reduced rate: €13.50 for Jeu de © Jeu de Paume, photo Adrien Chevrot Paume/Orangerie members and visitors under 26 yrs Bookings of the visit via the Musée de l’Orangerie: Jeu de Paume, view on the Eiffel tower and +33 (0)1 44 50 43 01 Obelisque de la Concorde information@musee-orangerie.fr © Jeu de Paume, photo Adrien Chevrot 28
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