Slow and steady wears the stone الدوام ينقب الرخام
Resonating with the ruins of the Abbey of Jumièges, this group exhibition brings together eleven Tunisian contemporary artists from the contemporary Tunisian scene who explore the image in all its forms, around the themes of history and memory. The title of the exhibition is a proverb in Tunisian (Tunisian dialect) whose French equivalent would be […]
From Corot to Impressionism: A Flowing Palette
The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims, the capital of Champagne region, is home to one of the largest collections of 19th century French landscape painting. “From Corot to Impressionism : A Flowing Palette” is the first exhibition drawn exclusively from its collection to have the opportunity to travel to China, due to the renovation of […]
Tides, yes, breathing
My works has been adjusting the distances between me and the world, to make the faraway existences almost reachable. For the existences that are too close to see to focus, are made seen through a further distance created. Maybe it’s a sort of tradition to express feelings through landscapes in China, where bodies and the […]
“Habiter le flux 不居” : French-chinese special issue of the LEAP magazine
Eight years after its first two Franco-Chinese editions (“Les communautés flottantes” in 2015 and “Au sommet, le Verbe” in 2016), this special issue of LEAP, entitled “Habiter le Flux” (“不居”, two characters which, in Chinese, mean change, flux, impermanence), explores the relationship between a shifting global context and contemporary creation, examines the many facets and […]
“Comme à Tunis”
In recent years there has been a revival, among the second and third generation of young French artists of North African Jewish origin, of their relationship with their history, with a movement back to Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria, the assertion of an attachment to these places, sometimes the claim of an “Arab Jewish identity”. The […]
Rebuilding everything from a shell
Rebuilding everything from a shell is an installation by Victoria Jonathan inspired by what is probably one of the first books published in the West on the Chinese artistic and poetic avant-gardes of the early 1980s. Published in France in late 1981 and presented at the Centre Pompidou in 1982, DOC(K)S. Les non-officiels. Art et […]
