Visqueen Lumisol Clear
Jean-Charles de Quillacq according to Sylvie Fortin
“In the middle of a roundabout near Marseille’s Prado Beaches, moving his hips and rolling his shoulders salaciously as he looked into the camera, he would bite his lips and rub his eyes as he strained to communicate. Intermittently he’d snap his fingers, as if to keep a silent beat, regroup, or awaken from self-hypnosis. Trying to recite his inherited legend—the master narrative of white masculinity—he fails, losing himself in the footnotes. Between these legs, the copied work of one of his artistic ‘fathers,’ his desiring body rejects the mother tongue as it would a transplant.”
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Rites of Passage, Connecting Worlds
Tatiana Trouvé according to Jesi Khadivi
“The importance that the co-evolution of plant, animal, and mineral life has taken in Trouvé’s recent works has developed in tandem with an increased attention towards examining forms of mapping that fall outside of the bounds of “traditional” cartography, which has historically been complicit in colonialism and the consolidation of Euro-centric power relations. Perhaps the roots of Trouvé’s interest in mapping—as well as the passages between different dimensions—can be drawn, in part, from her life experience.”
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Upcoming essays:
Martine Aballéa according to Chus Martínez
Sarah Tritz according to Fernanda Brenner
Anne Bourse according to Iheanyi Onwuegbucha
TextWork fosters and supports the work of artists active in the French art scene through the publication of long-form critical essays produced by international writers. With this program, the Pernod Ricard Foundation reinforces its commitment of over 20 years to supporting and disseminating this art scene. TextWork is initiated in partnership with the French Ministry of Culture.
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