Emanuele Coccia

Karen Archey

Daria de Beauvais

Laure Prouvost

Generous and full of humour, the work of Laure Prouvost examines the relationships between language, image and perception, placing the visitors in situations of doubt and incomprehension, but also a wonder which is both intellectual and sensorial. These situations become immersive installations, inviting escapism, in a dialogue between films, sculptures, paintings, tapestries, performances. Her exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo, “Ring, Sing and Drink for Trespassing”, operates as an ode to diagonal lines, the transcending of limits and the joy of slipping over a fence to discover a wasteland or, a now-abandoned garden. Book Contents - “Little Bees Behind”: interview between Laure Prouvost and Daria de Beauvais. - “Laure Prouvost: Leaking Language”, by Karen Archey. - “Organs Without a Body”, by Emanuele Coccia. About the authors - Daria de Beauvais is a curator at the Palais de Tokyo. She curated Laure Prouvost’s solo show. - Karen Archey is Curator of Contemporary Art, Time-based Media at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. - Emanuele Coccia is a lecturer at EHESS (Paris). He is the author of Sensible Life (2016), and Goods: Advertising, Urban Space and the Moral Law of the Image (2018). Forthcoming in English: The Life of Plants. A Metaphysics of Mixture. With Giorgio Agamben, he has edited an extensive anthology covering angels in Judaism, Christianity and Islam: Angeli. Giudaismo, Cristianesimo, Islam (2009). A book published on the occasion of Laure Prouvost's solo show at the Palais de Tokyo, 22.06 – 09.09.2018

Laure Prouvost (English edition)

Galeries Lafayette

Le livre Into the Woods accompagne et prolonge l’exposition éponyme à la Galerie des Galeries, aux Galeries Lafayette. Cette exposition esquisse à travers le travail de onze artistes femmes, un paysage mental fantasmagorique. Peinture, sculpture, dessin, vidéo, œuvre sonore ou installation, les techniques employées sont multiples et amorcent un parcours énigmatique. Réminiscences de contes de fées ou folklore sylvestre sont convoqués en filigrane et les œuvres surgissent comme des incantations. Leur apparente obscurité offre de multiples passages dans des univers parallèles, où l’ensorcellement nous attend. Entre des semblants de rituels, un cabinet d’œuvres au noir et une dernière note alchimique, le visiteur se perd pour mieux se retrouver lui-même.

Avec gravure signée numérotée par Anne Laure Sacriste

Into the woods

Amy Herzog

Récits captivants où la fantaisie et l'humour se mêlent à l'étrangeté et où le réel semble se distordre dans la fiction, les films de Mika Rottenberg sont montrés au sein d'installations immersives qui leurs servent d'écrins et prolongent leur univers. Cette nouvelle monographie, s'inscrivant dans la collection publiée avec Les presses du réel en lien avec les expositions du Palais de Tokyo, rassemble des vues d'exposition et une sélection d'oeuvres emblématiques, un entretien, un essai et un ensemble de notices.

Mika Rottenberg

Mika Rottenberg’s practice combines video, installations, drawings and sculptures. Many of her works portray absurd assembly-line situations in which work is often being carried out by women whose outsized, far from conventionally beautiful bodies are called into play both as tools and raw materials. Offering captivating narratives in which whimsicality and wit merge with weirdness, and reality morphs into fiction, Rottenberg’s films are presented in the context of immersive installations that plunge the viewer into their world—a world beyond the screen—in a blurring of the borders between the imagined and the real. Book Contents - “Down the Rabbit Hole or Through the Looking Glass?”: interview between Mika Rottenberg and Daria de Beauvais. - “Breaking the Bubble: Mika Rottenberg’s Industrial Attractions”: an essay by Amy Herzog. About the authors - Daria de Beauvais is a curator at the Palais de Tokyo. She curated Mika Rottenberg’s solo show. - Amy Herzog is a media historian. She is Associate Professor of Media Studies at Queens College and Coordinator of the Film Studies Program at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of Dreams of Difference, Songs of the Same: The Musical Moment in Film (2010) and co-editor, with Carol Vernallis and John Richardson, of The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media (2013). A book published on the occasion of Mika Rottenberg’s solo show at the Palais de Tokyo, 23.06 – 11.09 2016

Daria de Beauvais

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