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BISMUTH - PICANDET - VALLOIS

BISMUTH – PICANDET – VALLOIS

33 & 36, rue de Seine, Paris 75006
04 November — 23 December 2016
www.galerie-vallois.com

JULIEN BISMUTH
Partition

In 2012, during a residence in Brazil, Julien Bismuth discovers the singular language of the Pirahã tribe, who lives by the Maici river. This language is tonal, as the Chinese or certain African dialects; it can be whistled, hummed, or translated into music; each word has its own melody, which allows the Pirahãs to whistle whole sentences, and so to communicate at distance in the jungle. In September 2016, the artist participates to a research project with M. Gonçalves in the tribe. By articulating a part of the material collected during this trip with other projects he was already working on, the artist is proposing us a new exhibition, “Partition”.

Born in 1973, Julien Bismuth lives and works between New York and Paris. His mode of expression is diverse, from performance to theatre, from text to object, oscillating from written to oral forms and often combining them. His work alternates from minimalist plastic pieces to performances from which the only remnants are the process and objects left as traces and witnesses of the action. Julien Bismuth’s work is an exploration and a reflexion on the conditions of existence and the operativeness of language. Some of his works directly apply concepts of linguistics to concrete situations; in the end, Bismuth’s work is a constant and infinite dialogue between text, image, and object, a necessary dialogue to understand the realm of language.

From 1991 to 1997, Julien Bismuth studies the Art history, the New Media and the Performance to UCLA (Fine Bachelor of Arts) and in Goldsmiths College of art (Master’s degree of Art) with prestigious professors such as Paul Mc Carthy, Liam Gillick or Richard Jackson. He is also working on a thesis in Compared Literature at the Princeton University. He has been exhibited in numerous French and foreign institutions such as Orange County Museum of Los Angeles (2008), Tate Modern in London (2009), the GAK of Bremen (2011), Royal College of art of London (2011), Kunsthalle of Vienna (2012), Le Plateau (2012), Le Jeu de Paume (2008 and 2013) and Palais de Tokyo (2014 and 2015) in Paris or the Guggenheim Museum in New York (in 2016).

LUCIE PICANDET
Idiose
French feminine noun from the Greek term idios “particular, proper to” and the suffix -ose (in English -osis) “forming feminine substantives designating a process of transformation” (also found in words like anamorphosis, metamorphosis, mitosis, etc.). Designates a thing or a thinking made extremely particular under the instrumentalisation of its mediators. « Dalle du Lad and Thomery are two distinct projects triggered by the same desire to instrumentalize mediators underlying the act of thinking the self as well as thinking the world, in order to go beyond what we already know. Thus, in this project of putting into images invented words from the poem Dalle du Lad, language, beyond its role as a vehicle, becomes a “tool to think”, for instance, new types of actions or modes of being in space-time.
In Thomery, memory is exceeded in its role as a vehicle of thinking the self. In my grand-parents’ house, now long gone, my children’s eyes were often lost in the curls, motifs, foliage which ornamented the furniture and rooms and all the little things that would attract my thoughts, and where I would lay the odd questionings popping into my mind, at a time when I was still a stranger in this world. I have collected these images from archive photographs and connected them together to form “tools to help me think my own self”. These tools are made to approximatively measure the thickness of my consciousness. Like valves, they open and close access routes to a deeper memory and self-knowledge. »

 

Lucie Picandet studied theology, philosophy and the aesthetics of cinema. She then completed a diploma in 2007 from the Paris National Fine Arts School (ENSBA) under the supervision of Jean-Michel Alberola. She also obtained a Masters in Philosophy with distinctions from the University Paris 8 in 2010 which led her to undertake a PhD on the aesthetics of cinema (2011- 2016). Writing is also essential in her work: she writes fiction, in verse and prose, some of which are used as starting points for her creations. Today, she is also a graduate assistant in Aesthetics of Cinema at University Paris 8.

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