Plan d'Evacuation in the group exhibition Her memory was a breeze blowing in the white curtain of a room in the empty house
curated by Yomna Osman
Fondation Fiminco
3 June - 10 July 2022
Installation View
Installation View
Plan d'Evacuation, 2022, MDF wood, print on plexiglass, led lights, Arduino board, light sensor, 25 x 20 x 1.5 cm
Installation View
Plan d'Evacuation, 2022, MDF wood, print on plexiglass, led lights, Arduino board, PIR motion sensor, 25 x 20 x 1.5 cm
Installation View
Plan d'Evacuation, 2022, MDF wood, print on plexiglass, led lights, Arduino board, AI facial recognition sensor, 25 x 20 x 1.5 cm
“Her memory in the empty house, blows like a breeze through the white curtains”, borrows its title from Ricardo Piglia’s novel, The Absent City. The writer depicts a machine producing endless narratives, haunted by the interpretation of history as an enigma. Through this gesture, we observe the transformation of reality, the distortion of meanings. The exhibition echoes these new visions by presenting multidisciplinary works that highlight the range of contemporary artistic practices.
It invites visitors to wander through an imaginary city imagined by the artists. Organised and constructed for the occasion, each of them develops his or her own cultural living area. In various forms, mediums and practices are revealed, whether hybrid or experimental, they introduce a new relationship to the intimate and the everyday. From their spatial inscriptions emerge cities with protean narratives, individual narratives where views and experiences are combined. From these stories with mythical outlines emerge with force the questionings of a world destabilized by contemporary history.
Through this stroll, seventeen solitary and common reveries are revealed, with works by Agata Ingarden, Ahmad Karmouni, Ali Eyal, Baptist Coelho, Corinna Gosmaro, Gabriel Moraes Aquino, Giuliana Zefferi, Inara Bagirova, Isaac Lythgoe, Ismail Alaoui Fdili, Ittah Yoda, Louise Mervelet, Marina Xenofontos, Mehdi-Georges Lahlou, Winnie Mo Rielly and Yuliaa Lysenko.
text by Yomna Osman