One collection: two scenarios

Scenario 1: bodies, colours, materials
March 13-May 9, 2021

Scenario 2: Plan, image, sequence
May 10-August 15, 2021

One collection: Two scenarios presents a comprehensive overview of the works acquired by the Frac Normandie Rouen in recent years—since 2018—and offers two consecutive hanging schemes, whose focus and approach can equate to two distinct scenarios, two narratives.

While the first scenario displays, with sensitivity, different manners of representing and staging the body, nature and matter, the second, more conceptual in appearance, is guided by questioning the device per se and serves as a look behind the scenes.

The exhibition, designed using two specific approaches, covers 150 works produced by 62 young-generation artists, such as Pierre Seiter, Marc-Antoine Garnier, Laure Tiberghien, Raphaël Grisey, Constance Nouvel and Sébastien Rémy, as well as more senior artists on the national arts scene, including Aurélie Pétrel, Pierre Joseph, Marina Gadonneix, Julien Prévieux, Thu-Van Tran, Elodie Lesourd, and international artists, with avec Slavs and Tatar, Bloomberg & Chanarin, Ulla van Brandenburg, Anne Collier, Mac Adams and Ian Wallace. Many of the works on display relate to the major leitmotifs that steer the collection today, such as the environment through constructed space, territory and nature, the body in its aesthetic, social and political, in addition to its performative and media dimension, or the narrative in disruptive forms associated with books, writing, images and installations.

Via its two-fold approach, One collection: Two scenarios also provides the public with an opportunity to attend the dismantling of the first stage and the hanging of the second phase by the exhibition management. It is intended as a work in progress, which gives access to an exhibition backstage for the first time.

Exhibition curator: Véronique Souben, director of the Frac Normandie Rouen

With Ingrid Berger, Katinka Bock, Mathieu Bonardet, Ulla Von Brandenburg, Broomberg & Chanarin, Lynne Brouwer, Thomas Cartron, Jagna Ciuchta, Collectif d’en Face, Anne Collier, Dominique De Beir, Morgane Fourey, Marina Gadonneix, Nikolaus Gansterer, Marc-Antoine Garnier, Agnès Geoffray, Geert Goiris, Joseph Grigely, Raphaël Grisey, Christophe Guérin, Florim Hasani, Albane Hupin, Pierre Joseph, Hiwa K, Barbara Kasten, Julien Lelièvre, Élodie Lesourd, Mac Adams, Manuela Marques, Mathieu Mercier, Marianne Mispelaëre, Géraldine Millo, Matan Mittwoch, Karl Nawrot, Constance Nouvel, Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza, Aurélie Pétrel, Diogo Pimentão, Julien Prévieux, Isabelle Prim, Eileen Quinlan, Sébastien Rémy, Sébastien Reuzé, Sebastian Riemer, Gilles Saussier, Timothée Schelstraete, Joachim Schmid, Pierre Seiter, Slavs And Tatars, Cally Spooner, Éric Tabuchi, Laure Tiberghien, Julie Tocqueville, François Trocquet, Francisco Tropa, Thu-Van Tran, Frédéric Vaesen, Erik Van Der Weijde, Ian Wallace…

COVID INFO Despite its temporary closure, the Frac continues its exhibition’s program. Professional visits, in small numbers, are allowed. If the announced appointments and events cannot take place at the Frac, digital and online versions will be imagined. In addition, the exhibition will be accessible to all on a virtual tour at the end of March.

The Fonds régional d’art contemporain (Frac) Normandie Rouen is a cultural association designed/aimed at supporting and disseminating contemporary art in the region. It is funded by the Ministry of Culture / Drac de Normandie and Normany Regional Council.