For the first time, until 2022, the programme of the Palais des Beaux-Arts is entirely designed, developed and implemented by the 25 students of the "Artists & Exhibition Professions" course and the 11 young curators in residency at the Beaux-Arts de Paris. From 14 April to 29 May 2021, discover the seven new projects of Act 2 of the Theatre of Exhibitions, presented in a series of rooms fitted out for the occasion.
In this context, Simona Dvořáková, curator in residency at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, conceived the exhibition Le temps est détraqué. Tania Gheerbrant, artist currently in residency at the Cité internationale des arts, and Flora Bouteille, Grégoire Rousseau, two artists previously in residency, contributed with their work, skills and ideas to the project.
Le temps est détraqué focuses on the possibilities of autonomous temporal spaces and the scenic potential of a gathering place. By mixing various temporalities, their anachronistic and ghostly aspects, this exhibition questions a presence and experience that is born from our surroundings.
The poetic environment exists here through the works, conceived in resonance with each other and with the space itself. Composed of technological waste, playful, illusory gestures, various devices, the flashing light and electrical energy that powers them, the works provoke fleeting images of the real abandoned, both deranged and mad in a deranged time. The fluidity of this unreal spectacle oscillates between a "romantic sobriety" and a "contemporary baroque". The random and synchronized visual and acoustic elements unfold like a score made up of digital parameters, as in the logic of the sound language, magical and universal "Zaoum" of the Russian futurist Khlebnikov. The spectators can enter, pass, hallucinate, think, forget or dream... They find themselves in a cognitive labyrinth that leads to an individual experience through sensory cues. Sometimes, by their mere presence, they embody the plastic expression of this relational study and the way the human body experiences it.
Flora Bouteille (France) was in residency at the Cité internationale des arts through the programme of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. She is the recipient of the 2018 Paris Prize.
Grégoire Rousseau (France) and Tania Gheerbrant (France) are a recipient of the Cité internationale des arts Visual Arts Committees.