«Des Corps libres–Une jeune scène française» [Free Bodies – A young French scene] is the primary group exhibition of Reiffers Artwork Initiatives. Artists with Caribbean roots represented on this collective exhibition are Kenny Dunkan (Guadeloupe) and Pol Taburet (Guadeloupe). [Shown above is Dunkan’s “Nèg Marron,” 2021; shown below: Taburet’s “Untitled,” 2021, Collection Pinault.]
Curated by Thibaut Wychowanok, committee member of Reiffers Artwork Initiatives, the physique of labor within the exhibition questions the illustration and fluctuating materiality of the physique and celebrates its range, its struggles, and its modern emancipation. The exhibition opened on Could 5 and can stay on view via Could 28, 2022, at Studio des Acacias (30, rue des Acacias, 75017 Paris, France). The gallery is open Tuesdays via Saturdays (11:00am to 7:00pm).
Taking part artists are: YMANE CHABI-GARA, SALOMÉ CHATRIOT, JEAN CLARACQ, KENNY DUNKAN, BEN ELLIOT, TAREK LAKHRISSI, CHALISÉE NAAMANI, VALENTIN RANGER, SARA SADIK, POL TABURET, SOPHIE VARIN, JULIE VILLARD & SIMON BROSSARD, MANON WERTENBROEK, GASPAR WILLMANN.
Description: The exhibition is an invite to discover the potential for a physique, singular or common, whether or not or not it’s evanescent, fantastical, digital, anchored in our present world, science-fictional, or utopian. From the body-object to the body-subject, from the figurative physique to the trace of a physique, from the dreamed physique to the digital avatar physique, it’s a query not solely of writing the physique with out censorship, however of providing the potential for taking a brand new have a look at it, in full freedom.
Translated by Ivette Romero. For authentic data (in French), see https://www.reiffersartinitiatives.com/exposition/exposition-collective-reiffers-art-initiatives-des-corps-libres-une-jeune-scene-francaise/