Exhibition. by Gilles Miquelis, « Vivre à en crever ». and. Simone Simon « Ne regardez pas le renard passer ». from 14 January to 4 March 2017.
Exhibition. by Gilles Miquelis, « Vivre à en crever ». and. Simone Simon « Ne regardez pas le renard passer ». from 14 January to 4 March 2017. Gilles Miquelis Vivre à en crever “Smokers sit on the cusp of documentary. Full of contentment, brimming with self-satisfaction, ready to burst into flames! Borrowed straight from a nineteenth-century painting, they are angel faces, drawn from a casting call for young leading men. As they relish wrapping themselves in multiple wisps of smoke, the “gang of lit-up boys” is the archetype of innocence, vitality and a future all mapped out! Here the child is clearly taking power, no doubt in order to go up in smoke himself… A kind of striptease, the pictorial narrative of a contemplative who displays what he has stolen from everyday life, at the moment x when the ordinary blurs into the extraordinary.” Simone Simon Ne regardez pas le renard passer “My earliest memory is a little rhyme we used to chant in the playground at nursery school: Ne regardez pas le renard passer … quand il sera passé vous le regarderez.” The work presented at the gallery, “Ne regardez pas le renard passer”, is a narrative on the border of dream, in which each of us can recognise ourselves. A sound installation and an edition that gather all the answers to the question: What is your first memory? *Prototype of a comfort system created by the designer s.marin. Event. A debate at the gallery, organised around Simone Simon’s sound installation Wednesday 22 February 2016 “Ne regardez pas le renard passer”. Memory, reality or fiction? The debate will be led by Chiara Palermo, exhibition curator and PhD in Philosophy, and by Jean Pierre Joly, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice and in public institutions. Chiara Palermo is an exhibition curator and holds a PhD in Philosophy. She has taught at the University of Grenoble since 2014 and, from this year, at the University of Strasbourg. Her research concerns the legacy of Merleau-Ponty’s thought in contemporary artistic expression. She is the author of various articles in the field of aesthetics and of a monograph on Picasso’s Cubism, currently being published in Italy. She worked in Paris in the news department of France 2 and collaborated on several cultural events, including the preparation of the exhibition “Trace du Sacré” for the Centre Pompidou. From 2008 to 2011 Chiara Palermo worked on the exhibitions of the Galerie des femmes Antoinette Fouque in Paris and contributed to the writing of the Dictionnaire des créatrices, Paris, Des femmes-Belin, 2013. She was recently curator of Diane Grimonet’s exhibition “7 Jour à quai” (Fondation Hellénique de Paris) and of Marta Nijhuis’s exhibition Elephant’s Memory (Maison Internationale de Grenoble), on the theme of cultural memory. Jean Pierre Joly, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice and in public institutions, is now interested in addictions and intrapsychic conflicts. He also takes part, on his own account and…
