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JOREIGE & HADJITHOMAS – IN SITU

Galleries — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 13:59:11 +0000

Rewind /fast forward

The territory on which we stand trembles, wavers, collapses?
Intense temporal and spatial collisions, continuities and discontinuities, everything is upside down. The past on the surface and the present well buried, the future untraceable?
Rupture, catastrophe, we wait for regeneration.
Then we scrutinize the world under our feet.
An aborted space museum under a heliport in a modernist international fair in Tripoli, Lebanon, built by Oscar Niemeyer but left unfinished.
A mythical Roman city, extraordinarily preserved, a mini-Pompei buried under a refugee camp in northern Lebanon, which reappears on the surface before disappearing again.
An underground survey revealing that a 45 meter high mountain is nothing but the accumulation of 25 years of techno-fossils waste.
Possible and sometimes postponed stories, secret stories, waiting, for those who still need to believe.

STOP – IN SITU

Galleries — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 12:42:19 +0000

Stop, let’s stop in this new venue, in this unusual environment. Let’s take the time to explore each floor of the space, from the basement to the terrace, to discover, through an itinerary of works by the gallery’s artists, this new destination of Grand Paris. The periphery questions, it opens new territories. Our urban habits dialogue with an industrial and rural history. Time may seem suspended, far from the frenzy of central Paris.
Stop is also a reflection on the need to give oneself time: reflection, the relationship with others, to the other, to what is different, to reflect on the state of the social world and that of our planet, to equally reread our history?

Komunuma (community or common in Esperanto) brings together, on the same site, several independent public or private entities, connected by contemporary art. The diversity of activities will generate collaborations and discussions, by providing a broad opening onto the world of French and international contemporary plastic creation. We would like the multiplicity of the proposals, on this enormous site, to encourage our public to spend time in it.
To inaugurate this new space, In Situ has decided to show most of the gallery’s artists in order to share with them the discovery of this venue that they will invest in the near future.
In the basement, Gary Hill presents the sound installation ?Up Against Down,? 2008.
The artist’s fragmented body is pressed up against an infinite surface, in extreme tension, whose feeling is heightened by a sound environment comprised of low-frequency waves linked to the pressure of the body. The physicality of the sense takes on a performative dimension here to which the artist is very attached.

Constance Nouvel created for the entrance of the ground floor space a wall work in a corner that questions the new venue’s architecture. Photography, as a starting point, is compared here with its environment, between real space and suggested space.
Drawing is asked here to move out of the flatness of the image in a mise en abyme of the space and its representation.
The architectural particularity of the glazed stairwell captivated the artist Vivien Roubaud, who deployed three fireworks explosions in it using a cascading hanging.
The artist reveals the object’s possibilities, seeking to extract its hidden qualities and their development in the space, and in a moment that is usually impossible for us to grasp.
The first and second levels of the gallery propose group hangings, creating bridges between the works the explore the intersections between art and science, the economy and society, history and memory, great art and popular culture, the idea of territory through environmental disturbances and their consequences?

You will discover Patrick Corillon’s flyer in the Komunuma tote bag.
Between reality and fiction, the Belgian artists ponders what the cultural history of Romainville could be. He will create the performance « A sentimental history of the ventriloquist » on Sunday October 20 starting at 4 p.m. as an avant-première.

HADJITHOMAS – JOREIGE – IN SITU

Galleries — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 16:24:53 +0000

Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige:

I Must First Apologize…

ShowingFebruary 19, 2016 – April 17, 2016

The culmination of a major project by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, this exhibition presents a body of work that looks at the history of online spam and scamming through film, sculpture, photography, and installation. Hadjithomas and Joreige have collected and archived a certain kind of spam e-mail—unsolicited messages from strangers—since 1999. These are schemes rooted in historical confidence tricks such as The Spanish Prisoner, which dates back to the sixteenth century. Aimed at swindling the recipient into transferring money to alleviate various invented personal hardships, collectively these e-mail scams delineate a map of recent geopolitical conflict, social unrest, and economic upheaval. Throughout this body of work, Hadjithomas and Joreige probe into the structures of belief and storytelling: they unfold a complex set of relationships marked by intimacy, trust, greed, and desire, all in relation to the internet and technology. The exhibition charts a kind of narrative itinerary ranging from various works that present intimate correspondence between scammers and victims to so-called “trophy” photographs extracted by vigilante scam-baiters and several video works that feature real or fictional protagonists of scams, including the major new installation The Rumor of the World (2014).

Hadjithomas and Joreige (both b. 1969, Beirut, Lebanon) live and work in Beirut and Paris. They have collaborated as filmmakers and artists since 1997. Their feature film Je Veux Voir (I Want to See) won Best Film of 2008 by the French Critics Guild. Their photographs and installations have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at Centre Pompidou, Paris; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Victoria & Albert Museum, London; SF MoMA, California; and New Museum, New York.Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige: I Must First Apologize… is organized in collaboration with Villa Arson, Nice, France; and HOME, Manchester, UK; and is curated by Eric Mangion for Nice, Omar Kholeif and Sarah Perks for Manchester, and Henriette Huldisch, Curator, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA.

The exhibition is accompanied by The Rumors of the World: Rethinking Trust in the Age of the Internet, a new publication edited by Omar Kholeif and published by Sternberg Press, in association with Villa Arson, Nice, France; HOME, Manchester UK; and MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, USA. The publication features contributions from the artists and Nicolas Auray, Finn Brunton, Henriette Huldisch, Omar Kholeif, Norman M. Klein, Franck Leibovici, Éric Mangion, Laura U. Marks, Sarah Perks, Jacques Rancière, Uzma Z. Rizvi, and Rasha Salti.

Support for this exhibition has been generously provided by the MIT School of Architecture + Planning, John Makhoul, and Cultural Service of the French Consulate in Boston, with additional support from the Council for the Arts at MIT, the Office of the Associate Provost at MIT, Terry & Rick Stone, the MIT List Visual Arts Center Advisory Committee, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and many generous individual donors. Special thanks to CRG Galler, New York.

Galerie In Situ – Romainville

Galleries — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 11:54:29 +0000

In Situ, created by Fabienne Leclerc in 2001, had joined up with the galleries’ association of the Louise Weiss Street in the 13th urban district of Paris, and now she left this district for Romainville

In Situ Fabienne Leclerc Gallery has the ambition to promote young artists in the French and the International art scene, as well as to support better known artists on the long run. So many artists of the Galerie des Archives, created by Fabienne Leclerc in 1989 and closed in 1998, continue to collaborate with In Situ Fabienne Leclerc Gallery : Gary Hill (USA), Mark Dion (USA), Patrick Corillon (Belgium), Patrick Van Caeckenbergh (Belgium), Lynne Cohen (USA), Andrea Blum (USA), Florence Paradeis (France).

From 2001, new artists, French or not, have joined up with the gallery: Bruno Perramant (France), Damien Deroubaix (France), Laurent Tixador (France), Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil (France), Joana Hadjithomas et Khalil Joreige (Lebanon), Subodh Gupta (India), Noritoshi Hirakawa (Japan), The Blue Noses (Russia), Patrick Tosani (France), Martin Dammann (Germany) , and this year Meschac Gaba (Benin) and Marcel Van Eeden (Netherlands).
In Situ Fabienne Leclerc keeps working on showing, producing works for the gallery and for institutions/museums, editing catalogs and artist books titled, Around and About, Gary Hill (2001); Atlas des idéations (2005) and Atlas d’une cosmogonie (2006), Patrick Van Caeckenbergh ; Horizon moins 20, Laurent Tixador & Abraham Poincheval (2006) ; Fragment of Travel, Exploration and Adventure, Mark Dion (2007), Bird’s eye view, Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil (2008); World Downfall, Damien Deroubaix (co-edition 2008), Bruno Perramant (co-edition 2009).