New exhibitions

The Enemy of my Enemy
A project by Neïl Beloufa

“If there once was a time when artists came up with images that the powers that be didn’t want to see, the powers now incite, desire, consume, and paradoxically represent freedom in this way. So, how to make something which is unusable?” —Neïl Beloufa

Curator: Guillaume Désanges, with the collaboration of Marilou Thiébault and Noam Segal.

One and Other
A project by Kader Attia & Jean-Jacques Lebel

“What transpires from our mutual passion for the encounter between objects is what André Breton told Jean-Jacques one day: ‘We don’t discover objects, they come to meet us.’ Metaphorically, the desire behind our interest in these various objects and the variety of their aesthetic and ethical values is to reproduce our questionings about society and its structures? These objects reveal our humanity. Everywhere, and at times unknowingly, their creators have, like us, practiced an art of détournement and of réparation. What we present here is a collection of points of view, an array of  different perspectives and criteria for appreciation and evaluation. This is not an exhibition in the traditional sense but rather a rhizome—a transcultural laboratory that is only just getting started.” —Kader Attia & Jean-Jacques Lebel

Curator: Jean de Loisy

Hot To Trot. Not.
Nina Chanel Abney

“Artists have a right to do whatever they want. It’s like a creative license to do whatever, so why not use it, and push the boundaries—that’s what art should do. Make people uncomfortable and all of these things.” —Nina Chanel Abney

Curator: Hugo Vitrani

Toll
Daiga Grantina

“A soft architecture, one that can lie on a sofa and aggregate its psychic material. It could be a woman and a city.” —Daiga Grantina

Curator: Sandra Adam-Couralet

Daimyo, Warlords of Japan
The Tissue Equivalent
By George Henry Longly

“Everything that holds the artifact, the mechanics of display, changes the object and the understanding that we have of it.” —George Henry Longly

Curator: Adélaïde Blanc

We Saw That There Was Nothing Left to See
Marianne Mispelaëre

“What we see before us is always incomplete. I choose to adopt visual codes that have more to do with the invisible because I believe in what we read over and above what we see.” —Marianne Mispelaëre

Curator: Adelaïde Blanc

Fill up that Hole!
Anita Molinero

“A block of burnt weathering-like polyfoam, as orange and warm as embers like in Mad Max, passed through the bay windows of Palais de Tokyo and scattered in the space.” —Anita Molinero

Curator: Yoann Gourmel

That Which Flows Has No End
Massinissa Selmani

“Thinking through drawing from its documentary aspect allows to generate narrative forms whose lightness, humour or absurdity provide a glimpse of a conflictual background, which conserves contradictions.” —Massinissa Selmani

Curator: Yoann Gourmel

And a special project by Bertrand Dezoteux, a video mapping on the façade of Palais de Tokyo until February 22, 2018.

Curator: Daria de Beauvais