City Prince/sses

City Prince/sses
With: Aderemi Adegbite, Mehraneh Atashi, Shishir Bhattacharjee, Biquini Wax EPS, Britto Arts Trust*, Luciano Calderon, Chelsea Culprit, Ndidi Dike, Doktor Karayom, Ema Edosio, Kadara Enyeasi, Falz, Dex Fernandez, Dina Gadia, Betzabé García, David Griggs, Ha.Mü, Timmy Harn, La Havi, Amir Kamand, Hoda Kashiha, Lulu**, Tala Madani, Farrokh Mahdavi, Pow Martinez, Arash Nassiri, Leeroy New, Emeka Ogboh, Wura-Natasha Ogunji, Adeola Olagunju, Ashfika Rahman, Mahbubur Rahman, Fernando Palma Rodríguez, John Jayvee del Rosario et Maine Magno (Urban Decay Planning), Bárbara Sánchez-Kane, Reetu Sattar, Mamali Shafahi, Reza Shafahi, Justin Shoulder, Mohammad Shoyeb, Manuel Solano, Newsha Tavakolian, Stephen Tayo, Tercerunquinto, Traición***, WAFFLESNCREAM, Maria Jeona Zoleta, Zombra…

*Britto Arts Trust is a collective founded by Tayeba Lippi and Mahbubur Rahman      
**Lulu is an independent space founded by Martin Soto Climent and Chris Sharp
***Traición is a collective founded by Alberto Bustamante, Lucia Anaya, Pepe Romero and Diego Jiménez

Visual artists, creators, fashion designers, experimenters, tattooists, musicians: a good 50 artists are taking over the Palais de Tokyo and will be presented without any geographical grouping, mostly via new productions and site specific interventions. The exhibition will be presented as an imaginary, multiple and complex city, without borders, messy, staggering and creative: an unpredictable laboratory, which is always in motion and being (re)constructed.

Dhaka, Lagos, Manila, Mexico City, Tehran: As many rhizomatic world-cities subjectively chosen, guided at this time by our curiosity. All five are expressions of a fabric of contradictions, as seen in their saturated traffic which coexists with digital networks supposedly work fluidly. Quite clearly, these megacities are very different from one another. Their cultural, political and social singularities teem with numerous narratives which are all side-tracks providing glimpses into their identities, devoid of anything that could be univocal.

Raw and head-spinning hangings, mysterious landscapes, luminous or opaque zones, backrooms and traps: the presentation of the show has been conceptualised by the architect Olivier Goethals, according to the rhythms of day and night, from profusion to desaturation, alternating between monographic zones and terrains for encounters. He has elaborated an architectural pathway which reveals and accentuates the lines of force in the Palais de Tokyo’s building, which is here being envisaged as an immense common area, like “places where the thoughts of the world encounter the thoughts of the world.” (1)

(1) Edouard Glissant, in La Cohée du Lamentin, Poétique V, Gallimard, 2005

Curator: Hugo Vitrani
Associate Curator: Fabien Danesi
Architect: Olivier Goethals

& the Guest programme
alt + R - Alternative Réalité 
Exhibition by the winners of the Audi Talents 2018 awards
With: Marielle Chabal, Grégory Chatonsky et Léonard Martin
Curator: Gaël Charbau

Fall exhibition at Palais de Tokyo 
October 16, 2019–January 5, 2020

Future, Ancien, Fugitif
Views of today’s French art scene
Curators: Franck Balland, Adélaïde Blanc, Daria de Beauvais, Claire Moulène