Anne Le Troter: Parler de loin ou bien se taire [At distance speak, or hold your tongue]

Exhibitions by Anne Le Troter are designed to be spaces where language is projected; appearing as investigations into the contemporary world through the meticulous examination of the speech that it produces.

The artist infiltrates professional environments and gathers together different spoken materials, looking for the ways that an individual and their singularity can, in the crucible of language, express themselves without being appropriated or absorbed by today’s data society.

The vast installation that Anne Le Troter has made for Le Grand Café is made up of a single sound work that permeates the entire building, creating a dialogue from the sound archive of a cryobank, its interpretation, and its translation.

Parler de loin ou bien se taire [At distance speak, or hold your tongue] explores the circulation between liberation and alienation, and traces the poetic and the political in the personal.

The exhibition follows on from Théâtre chez l’habitant / théâtre d’habitation [Theatre in the home / theatre of habitation] a series of performances that she created in collaboration with Charlotte Khouri in Saint-Nazaire last July.

With The Neighbours F’s: Fun and Fame, a work created by Anne Le Troter and Charlotte Khouri.

This exhibition is the artist’s first solo exhibition of this scale. It is aligned with its recent projects presented:

-at the exhibition of the 20th Fondation d’entreprise Ricard Prize in 2018, for which Anne Le Troter was nominated
-during the 6th edition of Les Ateliers de Rennes - Contemporary Art Biennale: À cris ouverts in 2018


Biography
Anne Le Troter was born in 1985 in Saint-Étienne (France), she lives and works in Paris. She studied at HEAD - Genève (Switzerland) and ESADSE (Saint-Étienne Higher School of Art and Design).

Recent solo exhibitions:
2018: Media library FMAC, artgenève, Geneva (Switzerland). 2017: Palais de Tokyo, Paris (France). 2016: Arnaud Deschin Gallery, Paris (France); Villa du Parc, Annemasse (France). 2015: Crosnier Hall, Palais de l’Athénée, Geneva (Switzerland); La BF15, Lyon (France).

In 2016, she was awarded the Grand Prix at the 61st Salon de Montrouge.

Events
March 3, 3:30pm: Talking and visit of the exhibition with Anne le Troter and Anne-Lou Vicente, art critic
March 17, 3:30pm: “The exhibition seen by” L’Encyclopédie de la parole, a collective associated with the Théâtre, scène nationale, Saint-Nazaire

Exhibition curator: Sophie Legrandjacques, director of Le Grand Café – contemporary art centre
Press contact: Hélène Annereau-Barnay annereaubarh [​at​] mairie-saintnazaire.fr