Houille Blanche, Terre Froide
30.06 - 26.08
An exhibition by Organe de Concrétisation de Recherches
Based on interviews and research on the dams situated on the Plateau de Millevaches in the Limousin region in France, "Houille Blanche, Terre Froide" explores the intricate interrelationship that an investigation has with its subjects. The study is both a scientific research and an artistic meditation on the loyalties, power and possible future of low-density areas such as the landscape around Treignac. It proposes a re-examination of the place these localities have in an often romanticized urban imagination, and through the metaphor of the dam, asks whether it is possible to alter local infrastructures to re-invigorate the dynamism of naturally low-density regions.The group have engaged to think the specificities of this region as well as to look at the broader implications for isolated areas in general. The exhibition underlines the relationship rural areas have to large-scale global production chains as well as setting these conditions within the context of artistic reflection.
The Organe de Concrétisation de Recherches (or Research Manifestation group) is a collaborative project between Kapwani Kiwanga, Sam Basu (both artists), Caroline Hancock (curator) and Alice Peinado (anthropologist), that proposes the potential of a univocal object for artistic and scientific research. The ground for establishing this shared space is defined though a matrix of documentary, ethnographic and archival methods within the formal flexibility of arts practices.
The exhibition also includes the video Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas: Battle of Easel Point – Memorial Project Okinawa (2003) by Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba, lent by the Kadist Art Foundation Kadist in Paris.
Alice Peinado: Barrage de Treignac
Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba: Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas: Battle of Easel Point – Memorial Project Okinawa
Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba: Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas: Battle of Easel Point – Memorial Project Okinawa
Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba: Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas: Battle of Easel Point – Memorial Project Okinawa
Alice Peinado: Barrage de Viam
Alice Peinado: Barrage de Peyrissac
Organe de concrétisation de recherches: Empty Lake (Lac vide), 2012, 4 photographies de Jean Péchalat du barrage de Vassivière altérées
Organe de concrétisation de recherches: Empty Lake (Lac vide), 2012, 4 photographies de Jean Péchalat du barrage de Vassivière altérées
Organe de concrétisation de recherches: Empty Lake (Lac vide), 2012, 4 photographies de Jean Péchalat du barrage de Vassivière altérées
Kapwani Kiwanga: Re-enacting Resistance
Kapwani Kiwanga: Ground (Masse), 2012 Collage photographique
Concrétisation de recherches à propos des barrages du Plateau de Millevaches
Concrétisation de recherches à propos des barrages du Plateau de Millevaches
Alice Peinado: Cartographie du barrage de Treignac et ses environs. Fabriqué avec la laine de l'ancienne filature de Treignac
Kapwani Kiwanga: Houille blanche (White Coal), 2012 Vidéo loop
Caroline Hancock: collection de carte postales
[Campagne Sauvons Venise, Comité français pour la sauvegarde de Venise, Dessin de Pascalini
Salvador Dalí, La Métamorphose de Narcisse, 1936-37
Keith Haring, Untitled, 1987
Philippe Ramette, le contact, 2006
Giorgio de Chirico, Le Retour d'Ulysse, 1938
Raoul Dufy, La Fée électricité, 1936-37
Katsushika Hokusai, Creating wave off the coast of Kanagawa, from the 36 views of Mt Fuji, ca. 1831-34 Ant Farm, Dolphin Embassy Viewed from Directly Astern, 1977]
