Collective exhibition " Narcisse ou La Floraison des Mondes "
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Commissariat: Sixtine Dubly, journalist, author and curator and Claire Jacquet, director of the Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA
Exhibition from 27 January to 25 February
Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA, 5, Parvis Corto Maltese, 33 800 Bordeaux, France.
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Artists: Bas Jan Ader, François Aloujès, Brigitte Aubignac, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Maya Andersson, Xavier Antin, Nobuyoshi Araki, Sylvie Auvray, Yto Barrada, Hicham Berrada, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Delphine Chanet, David Claerbout, Armand Clavaud, Serge Comte, Jules Elie Delaunay, Florence Doléac, Charles Fréger, Hieronymus Galle, Jef Geys, John Giorno, Sophie Grandval, Suzanne Husky, Pierre Joseph, Kapwani Kiwanga, Majida Khattari, Jeff Koons, Suzanne Lafont, Marianne Loir, Mark Lewis, Robert Mapplethorpe, Ernest T , Mathieu Mercier, Joachim Mogarra , Pierre Molinier, Jean-Luc Moulène, Patrick Neu, Pierre Et Gilles, Elodie Pong, Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa, Man Ray, Martial Raysse, Marc Riboud, Hugues Reip, Lionel Scoccimaro, Alain Séchas, Shimabuku, Josef Sudek, Suzanne Treister, Thu-Van Tran, Ida Tursic and Wilfried Mille, Jacques Vieille, Jehan Georges Vibert, Herman De Vries, Lois Weinberger, Philip Wiegard, Amy Yao.
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The omnipresence of flowers in contemporary art marks a profound renewal of a subject most often considered as ornamental. The flower is a powerful matrix that makes up three-quarters of plant biodiversity, produces air, vegetables and fruit. It is this necessary and essential link that artists such as Bas Jan Ader, Yto Barrada, John Giorno, Suzanne Husky, Jeff Koons, Suzanne Lafont, Thu-Van Tran, Lois Weinberger, and many others are interpreting and reinvesting today through new eyes.
First of all, what is a flower? An ambivalent entity, between strength and fragility, intimacy and society. It is the sex of the fragile and matrix plant.It is a predation issue, by political nature.
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The exhibition Narcisse ou la floraison des mondes which brings together a hundred works (video, installation, painting, drawing, photography, sculpture) questions the hierarchy of artistic genres and the factory of industrial living. It highlights new sources of inspiration such as the ecofeminist movement or recent approaches to philosophy and science. Whether through morphogenesis, the “flower being” or wild thinking, artists multiply the points of friction with this flower still largely unknown, of which only one fifth has been researched.
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Therefore, Narcisse is not so much the egocentric hero who dominates and consumes the earth, but a human in full metamorphosis, eager to change to survive. He is the one who becomes flower and embraces opposites. The Narcissus is the flower of spring and renewal, that which opens to the flowering of worlds.
On the occasion of this exhibition, FRAC MÉCA presents from its collection, the paintings "Le Dimanche des Faunes" by Brigitte Aubignac.
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