Danh Vo / Daphné Le Sergent: Geopolitics of Oblivion / Suzanne Treister

Three new exhibitions open this month at CAPC reflecting the commitment of the museum to function as a platform for knowledge. A dynamic place gathering projects and ideas that question the society from the perspective of art. The summer program includes Danh Vo’s site-specific project for the Nave, Daphné Le Sergent’s proposal for the second instalment of this year’s Satellite program and a presentation of Suzanne Treister’s preparatory works for the public art commission she is currently developing in Bordeaux.

Danh Vo
Following the site-specific projects created since 2015, by Leonor Antunes, Rosa Barba or Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, we are proud and honored to invite this year Danh Vo (b. 1975, Bà Rịa, Vietnam) for a new commission. Vo has conceived a large-scale sculptural project underlying once again his ability to articulate personal and collective histories, while bringing together a network of partners sharing skills and assets for the sake of a common production.

His monumental installation will be occupying the Nave of the CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, an emblematic space located at the heart of this former warehouse for colonial foodstuffs, that has been the hosting place of memorable past exhibitions which have accompanied the history of contemporary art.

Curator: María Inés Rodríguez

This exhibition receives the exceptional support of our Honorary patron, Château Haut-Bailly
It is also supported by Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
Acknowledgements to Joseph Dalle Nogare, Cherise & Christian Moueix and Kvadrat

Daphné Le Sergent: Geopolitics of Oblivion
Newspeak—George Orwell’s fictitious language crafted for his dystopian novel 1984—is built upon the reduction and simplification of language. Its “C vocabulary”, made up of technical terms, is the thread that runs through Geopolitics of Oblivion. Daphné Le Sergent (b. 1975, Seoul, South Korea) explores the subject of dissociation, both as a geopolitical frontier and an internal disjunction. The exhibition focuses on writing with images, referencing the “data deluge” produced by Internet and search engines. It deals with the way this information overload fragments us, and considers the term “geopolitical” from an internal perspective. Here, Newspeak is a barrier language whose signs comprise both authority and memory. The artist creates two new modes of writing, one based on eye-tracking and the other on conglomeration. Digital language appears as a set of constraints that dictate the actions of our eye, and thus the structure of our thought.

The NEWSPEAK_ cycle is an attempt to create a cosmogony of language, a form of resistance through language and exhibition.

Curator: Agnès Violeau

The Satellite Programme is co-produced by Jeu de Paume, Paris; CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux and Museo Amparo, Puebla.

Suzanne Treister’s Journey to Bordeaux – Parallel Histories and Peripheral Narratives
In the context of its wide-ranging ongoing program of contemporary art commissions, Bordeaux Métropole invited Suzanne Treister to work on its territory as part of the “Garonne” art commission project that takes the River Garonne as its focal point. The project developed by the artist consists in a triptych entitled The Spaceships of Bordeaux, comprising three monumental works installed in Greater Bordeaux. The Observatory/Science Fiction Library was the first one to be completed and installed in Floirac in July 2017, The Spaceship will be inaugurated on June 7, 2018 in the inner harbour of the city and The Well/Jacques Ellul Library is planned for 2019.

The exhibition Suzanne Treister’s Journey to Bordeaux—Parallel Histories and Peripheral Narratives, to be held in the Library of the museum, is a continuation of the commission given to the British artist.

Curator: Eric Troussicot

Also on view
Benoît Maire: Thèbes
Curator: Alice Motard
Until September 2, 2018

Damir Ocko: DICTA
Curator: Agnès Violeau
Satellite programme 2018: NEWSPEAK_
Until May 6, 2018

[sic] works from the CAPC Collection, 2nd Installment
A selection of works by more than 40 artists from the 1960s to nowadays.
Curator: José Luis Blondet
Permanent exhibition

Upcoming

The Satellite Programme 2018: NEWSPEAK_ will continue with a third commission.
Curator: Agnès Violeau

Alejandro Cesarco
Learning the Language (Simple Past I)
October 11, 2018–January 6, 2019

The CAPC musée d’art contemporain is a museum of the City of Bordeaux.

Museum patrons
Honorary patron: Château Haut-Bailly

Founding patron: Les Amis du CAPC
Leading patron: Lacoste Traiteur, Fondation Daniel & Nina Carasso
Patrons: SUEZ, Mercure Bordeaux Cité Mondiale, Château Chasse-Spleen, Château Le Bonnat, Le Petit Commerce

Press
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