FIAC STORIES
FIAC PORTRAIT | Erin Jane Nelson
Erin Jane Nelson is Atlanta based artist and writer, she is also the Publisher and Director of Burnaway, a non-profit magazine of contemporary art in the American South. We talked about her recent work, favourite mediums, 3 projects that she finds the most formative, as well as her routine and rituals as an artist.Erin Jane Nelson is represented...
FIAC OVR | Through the Eyes of | Emma Lavigne
This online meander through FIAC inspired the beginnings of two imaginary exhibitions. The first, Surréalité, a dreamlike interlude that could be deployed within a psychedelic fictional manor, such as Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, and Hesam Rahmania’s castle of...
FIAC PORTRAIT | Erin Jane Nelson
Erin Jane Nelson is Atlanta based artist and writer, she is also the Publisher and Director of Burnaway, a non-profit magazine of contemporary art in the American South. We talked about her recent work, favourite mediums, 3 projects that she finds the most formative, as well as her routine and rituals as an artist.Erin Jane Nelson is represented by DOCUMENT and Chapter NY.What project have you been recently working on? Currently, I am working on a series of new, very large ceramic wall...
FIAC OVR | Through the Eyes of | Emma Lavigne
This online meander through FIAC inspired the beginnings of two imaginary exhibitions. The first, Surréalité, a dreamlike interlude that could be deployed within a psychedelic fictional manor, such as Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, and Hesam Rahmania’s castle of obsessions, haunted by Lois Weinberger’s Green Man, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s ghosts, Dorothy Iannone’s ecstatic lover, Peter Saoul’s funky painter, or Jakob Lena Knebl’s polymorphic bodies. A matrix for cultivating new forms...
FIAC PORTRAIT | Hanne Lippard
Hanne Lippard is a visual artist and writer based in Berlin, whose artistic practise focuses on human communication and language in its many forms. Hanne uses her own voice as a medium to develop performances, sound installations and sculpture. We talked about her recent work, favourite medium and routine. The artist is represented by LambdaLambdaLambda.What project have you been recently working on? This year my main focus lies on two big exhibitions, a series of exhibitions called “Contact,...
FIAC TIPS | Intérieurs 2020: Naoki Sutter-Shudo, “Les Émigrés”
Naoki Sutter-Shudo Les Émigrés, 2020 Colour video, sound 2mn 35sec Naoki Sutter-Shudo recites a short speech originally made by Danton at the National Convention in October 1792, where the session considered a new decree: banning emigrants from the territory of the Republic in perpetuity. Sutter-Shudo, living mainly in Los Angeles since 2015, adorns the speech with a cigarette, an iPhone, jewellery and a T-shirt bearing the effigy of the French Revolution, somewhat cynical anachronisms that...
FIAC OVR | Through the Eyes of | X Zhu-Nowell
If we consider an artwork a thing that inherently contains various sets of relationships, constellations of ideas, ways of making, and genealogies, then my work here is to suggest a few connecting threads that weave through these already overlapping and interconnected worlds. My selection of works for FIAC doesn’t follow an overarching theme, logic, or historical narrative, but there are a few running themes that connect different artist practices and strands of thinking with each other. One...
FIAC FOCUS | Society
Artists presented in this focus deal with different issues symptomatic of today's society. Coming from different countries and backgrounds, some of them choose to focus on global matters, while others concentrate on what is going on in their homelands.Mona HatoumProjection (velvet), 2013White Cube Projection (velvet) (2013) relates to a body of work that Hatoum has produced – including various sculptures and works on paper – which depict a world map, using the less familiar Gall-Peters...
FIAC OVR | Conversation Room | Petit Palais
In the rooms of the exhibition Edition limitée. Vollard, Petiet et l’estampe de maîtres that the Petit Palais dedicates to the publishing ventures of two major art dealers of the twentieth century – the visionary Ambroise Vollard and his spiritual successor, Henri Marie Petiet – Yvon Lambert presents his own background as a publisher. Just like Vollard before him, Yvon Lambert continued, after the closure of his gallery, to devote his time entirely to his passion for the publication of...
FIAC OVR | Through the Eyes of | Bernard Blistène
Whether “face-to-face” or not, any choice is a commitment to an imperfect cause. So I decided, or took it upon myself – whichever you prefer – to select only fifteen artists from the French scene and, what’s more, these artists are not (yet) present in our collections. The list will be surprising and even surprised me! So it just goes to show that the attraction of an artwork is stronger than any prejudice. Who could complain about that?Bernard BlistèneBernard Blistène has been the director of...
FIAC FOCUS | Mythology
10 artworks address and reinterpret mythology of different regions : from Ancient Greece to that of Caxinauás people.Mimmo JodiceDemetra, Opera lll, Ercolano, 1992Vistamare/Vistamarestudio Mimmo Jodice has used photography both to analyze reality and as an instrument of introspective investigation. His images document the impassioned interaction of the photographer’s eye with the world. Demetra, Opera lll, Ercolano, 1992, represents the vestals of the fascinating ancient world, testifying...
FIAC TIPS | Intérieurs 2020: Stefan Tcherepnin, “House of Horrors”
Stefan TcherepninHouse of Horrors, 2020Colour video, sound3mn A genius of Jack O'Lantern summoned to the House of Horrors guides us through a series of traumas, both real and imagined, in a freight train of terror. Stefan Tcherepnin born 1977 in Boston, USA. He lives and works in Kingston, New York, USA. Stefan Tcherepnin is a mixed media artist and composer. His work often takes the form of immersive, meta-narrative installations that integrate painting, sculpture, video and found objects. ...