Storytelling is an exhibition of a new genre that intends to make a residency period, as well as a phase of production and exchange between artists, the heart of an artistic project, thereby reversing the time, roles and habitual dynamic of a museum exhibition. Storytelling is conceived as a process of continual production and a new way of thinking about the relationship between the spectator, artist and the museum. For example, the inauguration takes place at the end of the exhibition.
The principle of the exquisite corpse associated with the surrealists serves as the inspiration and pretext to challenging the principles of mounting an exhibition, presenting the work of artists and by means of its transmission, the performance and modes of narration, its approach and perhaps even its appropriation by the public.
Seven young artists (Sara Bichão, Chourouk Hriech, Celsian Langlois, Violaine Lochu, Lou Masduraud & Antoine Bellini, Hannelore Van Dijck) will be invited as part of a short residency to develop a project with the curatorial team, bearing in mind the work of the previously invited artist, in order to invest the spaces of the macLYON over a period ranging from one to three weeks. The exhibition will begin when the first intervention takes place based on an invitation to reflect upon vibration, sound waves and composition.
Offering visitors an opportunity to experience an exhibition in an alternative fashion and to follow its progressive construction and evolution, the public will be able to observe each artist working in the spaces of the museum and to discover the behind-the-scenes work that constitutes an exhibition, either in situ or via social media.
This exhibition devoted to young creation seeks to challenge traditional codes in terms of cultural mediation and to renew the notion of a shared experience with the public. It is also a partition composed by several artists.
The artists
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Nom de l'artisteChourouk Hriech
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Nom de l'artisteLou Masduraud et Antoine Bellini
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Nom de l'artisteSara Bichão
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Nom de l'artisteCelsian Langlois
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Nom de l'artisteHannelore Van Dijck
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Nom de l'artisteViolaine Lochu
Born in 1977, she lives and works in Marseille (France).
A graduate from the ENSBA Lyon, Chourouk Hriech practises drawing, often in black and white, which she envisages as a promenade through space and time. Her work, whether on paper, walls and everyday objects encourages the spectator to reconsider old and modern architecture, both real and imaginary, as well as fi gures, animals, plants and chimeras.
Lou Masduraud was born in 1990, Antoine Bellini in 1979, they live and work between Lyon (France) and Geneva (Switzerland).
Lou Masduraud, graduating with ENSBA Lyon, produces a protean body of work: sound sculptures, installations, compositions... Antoine Bellini is a musician and self-taught artist.
Lou and Antoine have been collaborating together since 2012, investing exhibition spaces as privileged sites of experience and life. They participate in sound installations in the form of concerts or performances.
Born in 1986, she lives and works in Lisbon (Portugal).
Graduating with a Masters of Fine Arts from Lisbon University, Sara Bichão, Sara Bichão practice is primarily narrative and her work often takes the form of a commentary based on objects gleaned from the environment and area surrounding the exhibition space. Drawing and performance are not an extension but rather the catalysts of her works.
Born in 1993, he lives and works in Paris (France).
Following his studies at the Conservatoire de Bourg-La-Reine, he entered the ENS Louis-Lumière studying sound. Celsian Langlois examines the relationship between sound and nature. He sees the
world as a fabric of sounds in which we are all interconnected, each feeding on and contributing to the shared music. Sometimes sculptural, oftentimes quasi-invisible, he portrays sound as an interface that provides us with access to another reality. He reveals the imaginary and musical potential of things.
Born in 1986, she lives and works in Ghent (Belgium).Hannelore Van Dijck Hannelore Van Dijck studied Fine arts at LUCA in Ghent. She produces minute and highly textured charcoal drawings that often cover entire surfaces, whether they be walls, floors, sheets of paper, or textiles.
Born in 1987, she lives and works in Montreuil (France).
Violaine Lochu’s work explores the voice and language. In her performances, videos and radio plays, she combines her own vocal experiments with a free interpretation of different oral and written traditions (myths, tales, popular songs), theoretical ideas (inspired by psychoanalysis, linguistics and sociology), and sound material recorded over the course of her various encounters.
More information
Storytelling is an exhibition in progress. Seven artists (Chourouk Hriech, Lou Masduraud & Antoine Bellini, Sara Bichão, Celsian Langlois, Hannelore Van Dijck and Violaine Lochu) involve the spectators in the process of creating it. They have been invited to do a two to three-week residency one after another in an exhibition space that gradually becomes an exhibition. It is a new kind of “arts laboratory” that deconstructs the codes of the classic art show, inverting the chronology and interrogating the modes of mediation as well as the relationship with the visitors.
The rules of the exhibition are similar to those of the old Surrealist game cadavre exquis, a variation of the parlour game called Consequences, in which players write in turn on a sheet of paper, folding it over so that the next player continues the story without knowing what has gone before.
In the Surrealist picture version, enough of the folded-over picture is left showing for the lines of the next instalment to join up with it. In this exhibition, each artist is invited to ask their predecessor three questions as a guide to how they might continue the artistic project. The first artist will be creating a new work inspired by vibrations, waves and composition. The exhibition will gradually come together as a mixture of performance, sculpture, wall painting, installation, and who knows what more.
Storytelling is a challenge for the public, but also for the team at the museum and the artists themselves. It puts the processes of residency, performance and exchange at the heart of the curators’ proposition, with all the element of surprise that that entails. The vernissage will take place at the end of the process, when all the works have been installed and the space defined.
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Lou Masduraud and Antoine Bellini
Lou Masduraud’s work combines sculpture, installation, writing and performance. Antoine Bellini is a self-taught musician and visual artist, influenced by repetitive music, Krautrock and dub.
The two artists began working as a duo in 2012.
For this exhibition, they present an installation that evokes urban space, by replicating an area in concrete and the forecourt of a building lit by a street lamp. There are three bronze cellar windows in the walls of this simulated alleyway. They open onto other strange, underground spaces, where you can make out bags and bottles containing a medicinal plant with antidepressant effects. The scene is inhabited by two seated characters, two pairs of ceramic buttocks, discussing their intimate, everyday problems. They point up contemporary social difficulties.
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Sara Bichão
For Storytelling, Sara Bichão opted to present a work that mirrors her day-to-day life, in a space that reproduces the exact dimensions of the macLYON studio in which she spent her time during her residency. Her installation entitled Sol souple explores the notion of shadow: the shadow of the artist whose work clothes give shape to a body, the shadow of her activities giving rhythm to the space, but also the shadow of the objects she used during her time in the museum.
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Celsian Langlois
For the exhibition, Celsian Langlois has designed several modules with contrasting acoustics so that visitors can feel the relationship between space and sound. The artist has worked out ways in which the spatial setting conditions the diffusion of sound and modifies the atmosphere of his work. In the first environment, visitors can sample hard-boiled eggs while sounds and vibrations emanate from the walls. Stethoscopes are available for visitors to listen to their own and other people’s bodies, as well as to the walls. In a second room, in almost total darkness, a sound piece retraces the postal journey of Celsian Langlois’s letter to Hannelore Van Dijck, the artist who follows him in the exhibition.
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Hannelore Van Dijck
Hannelore Van Dijck prepares every one of her creations with a visit to the exhibition space in order to draw inspiration from what is already there. At macLYON, she was influenced by the disconnect between the enclosed, visual spaces and the abstract, more diffuse sound spaces, and by the way in which the sounds permeate the various rooms causing them to interact with each other. She gave this notion of walls penetrated by sound a visual resonance after noticing large air vents in the surrounding buildings. These ventilation grids became the main motif of her installation for Storytelling.
