Lubaina Himid: Naming the Money / Daisuke Kosugi: A False Weight / #after: from books to exhibitions

The last opening of the year at CAPC will be an opportunity to formally welcome its new director, Sandra Patron, who took office in September.

The large nave space will host Lubaina Himid’s iconic installation Naming the Money, which extends the experience of slavery to all “migrants” and calls to mind the initial purpose of the building that houses the CAPC, a former warehouse for colonial goods.

The Satellite program curated by Laura Herman will conclude with a new commissioned work by Daisuke Kosugi, while the CAPC’s library commemorates fifty years of Conceptual Art in France by presenting a selection of rare artists’ books.

Lubaina Himid: Naming the Money
Shown in the central nave of the CAPC’s building, Naming the Money is a key work in the career of Lubaina Himid, winner of the Turner Prize in 2017. It consists of nearly one hundred life-size painted plywood cut-outs that bring to life African servants depicted in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European court paintings.

A figurehead of the Black Arts movement in 1980s Britain, Himid has been developing a multi-facetted oeuvre across four decades in which she combines art-making, curating, archiving, and teaching to explore the marginalization of the black diaspora in contemporary society.

Curator: Alice Motard

With the support of Fluxus Art Projects

Daisuke Kosugi: A False Weight
In A False Weight by Daisuke Kosugi (b. 1984), the architecture of the home reveals itself as a stubborn backdrop and a fixed given. The body relies on the latter in order to structure day-to-day activities, or else it finds itself stifled in domesticity.

A new commissioned film critiques the monotonous and universal condition of much of the built environment, and is accompanied by a bamboo structure, which may be understood as a propositional work for contemporary architecture. The exhibition engages with the possibilities of the body to emancipate itself from un-adapted architecture and ideals of efficiency.

Curator: Laura Herman
Following exhibitions by Julie Béna and Ben Thorp Brown, Daisuke Kosugi’s film is the third and final installment of The New Sanctuary, a cycle of newly commissioned films co-produced by CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, Jeu de Paume, Paris and Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico.

#after: from books to exhibitions
Through a selection of key publications, including original editions, reeditions and reinterpretations, this presentation in the CAPC’s library space bears witness to the groundbreaking developments in publishing initiated by Conceptual Art in the 1960s. The exhibition invites a retrospective and critical reading of the genre along three general themes: from archive to collection; the catalogue as exhibition; the book as a work of art.

Curators: Alex Chevalier and François Trahais

Upcoming
Irma Blank: BLANK
April 16–September, 2020
Opening: April 15, 2020
Curators: Johana Carrier and Joana P. R. Neves

Samara Scott
April 16–September, 2020
Opening: April 15, 2020
Curator: Alice Motard

Also on view
Takako Saito
Curators: Alice Motard, Eva Schmidt, and Johannes Stahl
Extended until November 3, 2019

Histoire de l’art cherche personnages…
Curators: Alice Motard with Anne Cadenet and François Poisay (CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux); Anne Hélène Hoog (Cité internationale de la bande dessinée et de l’image, Angoulême); Yan Schubert (Fondation Gandur pour l’Art, Geneva).
Until February 2, 2020

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

Museum patrons
Honorary patron: Château Haut-Bailly

Les Amis du CAPC
SUEZ, Château Chasse-Spleen, Château Haut Selve

Press
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