As part of its season devoted to sound in contemporary art, macLYON has given carte blanche to the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon. The exhibition Neume, spectre, fumée presents a selection of works by artists who graduated in 2018.
A “neume” was the basic element of musical notation, from the 9th century through the entire Middle Ages, prior to the invention of modern, five-line staff notation. Proceeding by similarity and analogy, slipping backwards and forwards from listening to seeing, from the visual to the audible, the exhibition presents an imaginary run up-and-down the scale, an elemental mapping of an ancient skill, the emergence of an unequivocal movement divided into notes, partials, and clouds.
Curator: Gilles Grand
Artists: Ophélie Demurger, Jean Doroszczuk, Adriane Emerit, Hugo Ferretto, Perrine Forest, Quentin Goujout, Juliette Guerin, Hélène Hulak, Michala Julínyová, Maintenance Tank x Nicolas Degrange, Pierre Masclef, Jean-Baptiste Perret, Sinem Sahin, Frédérique Vivet
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Jean Doroszczuk
Jean Doroszczuk’s video installations explore many forms of moving images, including cinema, TV, games, and 3D, through an exploration of our different ways of seeing them or producing them. L’Autre tigre (2018), which was screened at FID, the Marseille International Film Festival, features a character standing still in front of a landscape with a river. This sequence shot establishes a calm intensity. The unchanging landscape is constantly being renewed nonetheless
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Adriane Emerit
Adriane Emerit takes stories, images and objects and removes them from the quotidian contexts in which they usually appear, in order to create new, disturbing and exotic environments–non-places imbued with allegories of all sorts. Everyday life is full of fiction and the commonplace serves as a support for a phantasmagorical projection. She draws ironically and self-mockingly on her American cultural heritage. For this show, she is exhibiting Sidewalk Romance (2019).
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Sinem Sahin
Sinem Sahindokuyucu creates assemblies from recycled elements. She transforms her materials into “poem-objects” and places the act of design in a broader field than mere optimisation and functionality. The installation Objet petit abcd (2019) is a follow-up to a 2018 performance with some of the elements laid out differently: shelves poised in equillibrium, reflections prefiguring mirrors, and candle ends. Frozen in mid fall, the objects are required to negotiate their identity, their function and to justify their maintenance in space and time.
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Juliette Guerin
Using images gleaned from online adverts, teleshopping, and so on, Juliette Guerin has combined sculptures and videos in her immersive environments. The forms she creates examine subjects such as the body, food and the wellness industry in the age of commodification and capitalism. The gestures that inspired her are performed repeatedly in the video, pushing the subject towards absurdity in a combination of grating humour and critical distance. Usine de prot (2018) is set in an operating theatre and depicts a substance being manufactured from potted proteins “100% Whey Protein Professional”. The bigger the substance grows, the more organic, abstract and uncontrollable it becomes.
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Jean-Baptiste Perret
Jean-Baptiste Perret studied ecology at university, then worked in environmental protection for several years at the LivradoisForez Regional Nature Reserve. After graduating from École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Lyon in 2018, he started making films in rural areas. He takes an interested look at the background of people close to him and films them in everyday situations, using the techniques of fiction to give edge to a documentary approach. At macLYON, he is presenting his three-video installation Le Char de foin / The Haycart (2018).
