
artists




the approach

Antinomian terms, new protean bodies, new gestures that needed to be looked at from a different angle.
For this reason, the project used derision and an aesthetic of the absurd as a means of maintaining a safe distance from reality, a distance that is essential if we are to tackle these paradoxes one after the other.
As part of an experimental approach, we also left room for an imaginary world, a somewhat dreamlike elsewhere. Each participant, with his or her own tools, words, expressions, body and experience, has created an artistic and plural counter-discourse, an original scenography for curious times.
The artists have developed a number of plastic and visual approaches through their workshops. So while the initial aim of the proposed action was to enable the public
to objectify this period of crisis, in order to pursue or give new meaning to their lives, the participation of each and every one of them eventually turned into a real appropriation of the project,
including its artistic dimension,
making CARE an experimental
and collective work.
The exhibition is the final stage of this project. It marks the end of an artistic research project, but also allows the participants to see a shared project through to the end, and makes dialogue possible.
les œuvres













Denis Darzacq
In this series, made up of medium-format black-and-white and large-format colour works, Denis Darzacq examines the place of man in nature during a pandemic. A succession of characters, each more enigmatic than the last, seem to emerge from a wild, primitive forest, in attitudes that are both grotesque and graceful, imbued with a disturbing strangeness. Mysteriously embodied, they seem both inaccessible and close. Inevitably, a play of correspondences is set in motion, inspired by our collective imagination. We are thrown into an almost cinematic universe, halfway between The Wizard of Oz and futuristic films.
Ilona Mikneviciute
With the Éléna, Émilie, Hélène, Jessie and Narcisse series, Ilona Mikneviciute wanted to offer a sculptural version of the characters embodied in the costumes created during the participatory workshops. Taken out of context, these garments - in turn armour, cocoon or apparition - evoke a fantastical, even warlike universe, as much as a desire for flight or comfort. The coldness and shine of the metal, and the choice of objects, play on the dichotomies between heaviness and lightness, aggression and gentleness, triciality and preciousness, while bringing a tangible materiality to an absurd universe where humans struggle to find their place. Yet the titles of the works refer to very real people who, for the duration of the project, have become ‘out of the ordinary’ characters, to whom the sculptures pay tribute.
Olivier Renouf
With The March, Olivier Renouf re-enacts, almost literally, Pina Bausch's Seasons March, one of the most famous works by the German dancer and choreographer who died in 2009. In the original performance, each season is represented by simple gestures evoking nature: grass, sun, leaves, trees. The choreographer was fond of this kind of ‘procession’, which sometimes spread to the audience. With the same idea of collaboration between dancer and audience, Olivier Renouf wanted the farandole to continue, led by gestures this time inspired by habits, attitudes and the famous ‘barrier gestures’ linked to the health crisis. These short dance sequences are both touching and derisory, using the body to express a collective feeling, between constraints and frantic attempts to find freedom.
location and assembly
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exhibition and workshops
