LILI REYNAUD-DEWAR: VIVRE AVEC ÇA ? !
kamel mennour, Ile-de-France, Paris, 09/06/2014 - 10/11/2014
ABOUT
Despite its direct address to the viewer, VIVRE AVEC ÇA ? !
[LIVE THROUGH THAT?!] takes on multiple and ambiguous
meanings. Is it a question asked of those who collect and live with
artworks? A question that the artist asks of herself? Does the
“Ça” – the “That” – point to regrets, to guilt, to a secret or to
memories? Or is it simply the artist’s body, which is placed center
stage – put on exhibition, even – in this show?
This exhibition will be the first gathering of a great portion of the
videos that the artist has made since 2011, which she describes as
a journal that documents her circulation as an artist. She dances
naked, her body covered in dark make-up, in places where she has
been invited to show her work, thus contaminating her own
exhibitions – and also sometimes those of other artists – and
revealing institutions behind the scenes, empty of artworks or
visitors, and unfinished exhibitions.
In addition to these works are large, barely unmade beds with
holes made for loudspeakers that play repetitive electronic music
and a voice reading texts by Dustan, Duras, and the American
poet Eileen Myles (a few of the artist’s favorite authors), who use
their own lives as material for their writing and for their bare,
direct styles. This laying bare and this exhibition – of which Lili
Reynaud-Dewar seems to be enamored in various ways, down to
her treatment of the exhibition space as a domestic space – come
face to face with large glass panels under which men’s suits and
pajamas are pressed, frozen in improbable and parodic poses not
so dissimilar from the artist’s own gesticulations in her videos.
The exhibition will also be an occasion for the presentation of a
specially produced vinyl record that collects several tracks made
for the artist by the electronic musician MACON.
Featured above:
Live Through That ? !, 2014
Videostill
© Lili Reynaud-Dewar
Courtesy the artist and kamel mennour, Paris
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Despite its direct address to the viewer, VIVRE AVEC ÇA ? !
[LIVE THROUGH THAT?!] takes on multiple and ambiguous
meanings. Is it a question asked of those who collect and live with
artworks? A question that the artist asks of herself? Does the
“Ça” – the “That” – point to regrets, to guilt, to a secret or to
memories? Or is it simply the artist’s body, which is placed center
stage – put on exhibition, even – in this show?
This exhibition will be the first gathering of a great portion of the
videos that the artist has made since 2011, which she describes as
a journal that documents her circulation as an artist. She dances
naked, her body covered in dark make-up, in places where she has
been invited to show her work, thus contaminating her own
exhibitions – and also sometimes those of other artists – and
revealing institutions behind the scenes, empty of artworks or
visitors, and unfinished exhibitions.
In addition to these works are large, barely unmade beds with
holes made for loudspeakers that play repetitive electronic music
and a voice reading texts by Dustan, Duras, and the American
poet Eileen Myles (a few of the artist’s favorite authors), who use
their own lives as material for their writing and for their bare,
direct styles. This laying bare and this exhibition – of which Lili
Reynaud-Dewar seems to be enamored in various ways, down to
her treatment of the exhibition space as a domestic space – come
face to face with large glass panels under which men’s suits and
pajamas are pressed, frozen in improbable and parodic poses not
so dissimilar from the artist’s own gesticulations in her videos.
The exhibition will also be an occasion for the presentation of a
specially produced vinyl record that collects several tracks made
for the artist by the electronic musician MACON.
Featured above:
Live Through That ? !, 2014
Videostill
© Lili Reynaud-Dewar
Courtesy the artist and kamel mennour, Paris