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 […]
Shanghai theatre inspiration tour for L’Oréal
The workshop, which took place during the week of June 24th, 2024, is initiated by L’Oréal University for Retail and aimed at drawing inspirations for product and experience design from the principles and techniques of theatre set design. The content of this week-long exercise is developed by renowned French set designer Gilles Taschet, who, throughout […]
Salvaged from the shadows, protecting cultural heritage.
What is ALIPH ? ALIPH is a foundation that protects heritage – museums and their collections, sites and monuments, documentation and manuscripts, intangible heritage – in conflict and post-conflict zones. Today, ALIPH has supported over 450 projects in 35 countries, with a total budget of $60 million. These projects include the protection of the collections […]
