Auteure - chercheuse - enseignante en esthétique - critique d’art (AICA) - curatrice
Fondatrice de la structure d’exposition et d’expérimentation artistique

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"We Play, We Stage, And We’re Enacting", commissariat : espace
p( )tentiel (Raya Lindberg/Nadège Derderian), Palbok FoCA -
Factory of contemporary art (Jeonju, Corée du Sud),
décembre 2018-janvier 2019

What is going on in the viewer’s mind watching a painting, or to the listener attentive to a music score, or to a visitor walking in an exhibition space and immersing himself in an art space, whatever the context ?

Something happens. Projected visions that feed a dramaturgy, displaying a potential zone for disorder and hidden conflicts? It happens. It happens because we are confronted to something new.
You get to think and get some of the invisible and the immaterial, yet here with a political hint. Espace p( )tentiel is offensively projecting the Imaginary, and thus maybe an utopic vision. As we let go of the idea of the use of an image becoming a possible testimony, a referencial twined to reality, it then becomes an expressive aesthetics form, carrying an abstract and conceptual strength. We may then consider that any creative space confronts us with a staging of the making, a dramaturgy that supposes the perception of a projected image, or rather a staged image. If an image can be de facto some kind of archive of Reality, i.e ; a document, in it’s raw form, it can be embodied by an aesthetics and expressive form. Dramaturgies thus generates an active form between making and designing. A perceptive mode, and a field of tension. Hereby the art works may suggest that it can be open to different possible readings ; whether we look at them as paintings, whether we decipher them as books, or whether we experience them as Live Art.

This project orchestrates works staging a documentary trace. Of a place. Of an historical event. Of a human experience. Traces can sometimes be branded in our memories as something dramatised and the reality can then become a projected fictional space taking shape in our gaze.
Artists experimentation of hybrid narrative objects made from everyday observation actually do propose a different kind of staged images and therefore emphasising new narrative and poetic processes. Choreographing automatic gestures of factory workers, conducting musical scores of rivers, re-inventing tales dealing with exile, shaping an industrial space into a theatrical stage.
The artists are here invited to research and experiment on hybrid narrative objects stemming from reality. Each would stage something different, and at the same time suggest new forms of narrative process that us, as viewers may interprete as choreographing the repetitive gestures of a fabric worker ; the swinging of the sound of a river waves ; re-inventing a musical fairy tale for refugees; staging an industrial site or impacting a classic painting support to abstract a political contemporary view.

These are all views you may see, but mostly these are ideas we are staging.

Artists: Mikhail Karikis, Simon Whetham, Effi and Amir, Gary Hill, Tatiana Bohm, Bomi Ahn, Jeong Jinyoug, Jo DongHee , Ryu Hankil.

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