FIAC STORIES

Paulo Nazareth was born in 1977 in Governador Valadares, Brazil. He lives and works in Belo Horizonte.  Moinho de Vento / Windmill is a performance that features 13 immigrants walking through the streets of Paris. Along their route, they grind coffee using manual coffee grinders. The movement of their arms is a metaphor for the rotating cogs of the world, and a direct reference to immigrant labour, which historically contributed to the construction of our contemporary social structure. As it...

Rosa Barba was born in 1972 in Agrigento, Italy. She lives and works in Berlin. Her work engages questions of time, materialized by inscriptions in landscapes and language, cutting across historical periods and subject matter. Rendered in filigree neon tubes, this light installation comprising four handwritten titles of previous works by the artist, was originally created and presented for the first time in the 16th-century garden of Villa Medici in Rome. The titles, installed on the ground,...

Noël Dolla was born in 1945 in Nice, where he lives and works. In October 1969, Noël Dolla climbed a mountain called l’Authion to paint coloured spots on rocks in pink vinyl paint at a height of more than 2,000 metres. Entitled Propos neutre n°2, this first intervention in nature inaugurated a series of actions in situ lasting from the turn of the sixties to the present day. His interventions follow on from the research and experiments on the use of medium typical of the Supports/Surfaces...

Hans Schabus was born in 1970. He lives and works in Vienna. In the work Ikarus, Hans Schabus places his old Renault Kangoo, compressed and mangled into a roughly rectangular shape, in the exhibition space. Individual parts of the vehicle have either been destroyed in the compression process or are hidden beneath its other elements. The carcass is suspended on a large gantry, a device which recalls the artist’s studio. A small nest sits on the top of the gantry, creating an unexpected contrast...

"Cercle de lecture" is a film by Rablo Reinoso directed by Rodrigo Reinoso and featuring Blanca Li, dancer and choreographer, in the artist's installation exhibited in the octagonal basin of the Jardin des Tuileries during FIAC Hors les Murs 2018. The shooting took place in 2018 during the dismantling of the installation and was edited during the lockdown in March 2020. Video: Rodrigo Reinoso Music: Ella Baila

Ryan Gander was born in 1976 in Chester, in the United Kingdom. He lives and works in London. The work presented is a tombstone created for an imaginary artist, placed outside and partially invaded by the surrounding vegetation. The inscription “Abbé Faria, 1940-1999” can be distinguished as well as an incomplete epitaph. OUR TIME IS LIMITED (PROPOSAL FOR THE GRAVE OF ABBÉ FARIA), 2016FIAC Hors les Murs 2017 Engraved stone3 x 130,5 x 80 cmgb agency, Paris Courtesy the artist and gb agency,...

Erik Dietman was born in 1937 in Jönköping in Sweden. He died in 2002 in Paris. Hailing from Europe’s Far North, the Swedish artist is fond of weird-looking creatures, such as the reindeer living deep in the forest, half-animal, half-vegetable, with horns that can also be interpreted as a ribald wisecrack about cuckoldry. The primitive, animal nature of the sculpture is not only a piece of self-criticism but also a critique of modern sculpture, which Erik Dietman is always ready to challenge....

Marcel Duchamp was born in 1887 in Blainville-Crevon. He died in 1968 in Neuilly-sur-Seine. “In 1935, Marcel Duchamp commenced an inventory of his earlier creations in the form of miniature reproductions. Consisting of a cardboard box in a leather valise, the first copies of the Box in a Valise were completed in 1941. This portable museum would be produced in six other editions (without the valise) from 1941 to 1968. This version is one of the 30 unnumbered copies signed by Duchamp that...

Alina Szapocznikow was born in 1926 in Kalisz in Poland. She died in 1973 in Praz-Courant, in France. Autoportret – Zielnik is part of her last corpus of sculptures. In 1971, following the incorporation of her “death mask” in Tumeurs personnifiées, Szapocznikow made a radical move back to a figuration, reworked through the merging of the body with the form and material of her sculptures. Imprinting the body in the material before it set, she created excruciating and fragile images of herself...