graphic design: Tom Cazin
DOC!, PARIS, FRANCE
MAR 2023
CURATORS: MARGAUX BONOPERA & BERENICE LEFEBVRE
SIGNIAU
- MARGAUX BONOPERA
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A signal (etymology, 14th century, signiau) is a distinctive mark, a sign through which information circulates. When this is disrupted, the information that reaches us undergoes twisting, twists and becomes dysfunctional. If the alteration is too great, what has been weakened can then become useless. However, this uselessness is only detrimental to within structures thinking about the links between things to based on objective, utilitarian and laudable reports world. The six artists brought together in this exhibition seem all skeptical, almost worried about the events that would work too well. All and all maintain an ambiguous relationship to the things that make flaw: damaged images and upset words. It’s when things go off the rails, when things go wrong, when things leave traces that they begin to take notes. What matters is no longer whether you can receive 5G or not, but rather the way in which the absence of a network therefore require communication. If text and images remain among the main sign of our societies, what are they for when they are damaged?
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To modify, use and seize information, Caroline Reveillaud and Juliette George use translation and editing techniques. According to Caroline, the techniques are not just knowledge leading to ways of doing things, but also structures engaging and modifying our perception and reception of images.
It is precisely this role of intermediary that interests her and this is explained in part by the fact that the artist first of all became aware of art and its history via printed images (magazines, popular books or historical documents for analytical purposes). The artist thinks about these datas (images, texts, documents) in ways a linguist would try to find the origin of words while questioning their current uses.
However, the discourse is by no means the issue of the artist, whose practice seeks above all to get the spectator to doubt his own perspectives constructed from data-driven sensory. Thus she uses the techniques that she deliberately opposes, creating an antagonism in order to allow and to reveal the image-making processes.
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SIGNIAU is an uncertain attempt at grouping, a runway jam, a range of strategies offered to us so we can better emancipate ourselves from the system of control and the organisation of our current societies.
SIGNIAU blurs to better invite us to reproup.
And that is how twists become works.
photo: objets pointus
with Camille BENARAB-LOPEZ, Juliette GEORGE, Jean-Baptiste GRANGIER, Bérénice LEFEBVRE & Victor VAYSSE