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Exhibitions:
Xinyi Cheng, Seen through others
March 23–May 28, 2022
Curator: Christina Li
The constellation of subjects and scenes captured in Xinyi Cheng’s evocative paintings are drawn from her encounters. From a tiny dog called Monroe staring at a bone on a red carpet to a man in leopard-print boxer shorts on a sofa speaking on the phone, her works unravel complex emotions, desires, and dynamics that permeate contemporary life. Cheng’s expressive use of light and colour help conjure feelings, reveries, and impulses that reside within our everyday experiences of being in the world.
For Cheng’s first major institutional exhibition in France, the presentation brings together over thirty existing works from 2016 to 2021 spread across the whole building. Shown in unfamiliar groupings, they open up novel correlations and understandings within her oeuvre.
Beyond a false softness, this selection represent her reflection not only on what it means for us to co-exist with one another, but on what it means to be human. Through her coruscating colour treatments on canvas, Cheng offers her insights to a baffling world, revealing enigmatic images.
Lina Lapelytè, The Mutes
June 23–July 24, 2022
Curator: Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel
Lafayette Anticipations is presenting a new musical and performative project by the artist Lina Lapelytè, who won the Golden Lion for her collaborative work at the Lithuanian Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale.
The Mutes exhibition will run continuously for several weeks, bringing together a group of musicians and amateur singers who perform throughout the spaces of Lafayette Anticipations. This choir brings together performers with no “musical ear”—an ability to sing in tune, to appreciate, recognise and reproduce a sound. This new kind of choir is thus composed of individuals that had been invited to silence, and the voices that now echo through the conceptual and architectural installation within Foundation invite us to discover other unknown, unexplored and singular soundscapes, through a musical work that challenges the authoritative understanding of tonality and musicality in the Western musical tradition.
Cyprien Gaillard
October 19–December 31 2022
Curator: Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel
Lafayette Anticipations has invited Cyprien Gaillard, one of the most important artists of his generation, to take over all of its spaces. The exhibition presented at the Foundation is a form of opera in which an automaton is reborn. A forgotten Parisian public work, a symbol of man’s immemorial struggle against the passage of time and its traces, this sculpture in the heart of Paris has become fossilized over several decades due to lack of attention. The artist thus proposes to transform its condition and to offer a new life to this presence that has fallen into ruin. Through this reanimation, it becomes the central character of a project devoted as much to decline as to rebirth.
This project will interact with other new productions by the artist, born of his observation of the frenetic and agitated restoration of the city of Paris. The project thus puts human existence and the cycles of history into perspective by focusing on the relative and shifting value that we attribute to both beings and things.
Festivals:
Closer Music
January 29–30, 2022
Curator: Etienne Blanchot
After an online edition in 2021, Closer Music returns at the end of January! For its fourth edition, the festival focuses on collective energies and collaboration, with a particular attention to the creative bubbling scene from UK.
Concerts will feature CURL (Mica Levi aka Micachu, Coby Sey and Brother May), Tara Clerkin Trio, Space Afrika and Blackhaine with a new creation never shown in France. The festival will include also a unique kind of rave party for children led by Crystallmess and Sentimental Rave, as well as a Warm Up Session with Fallon Mayanja.
Echelle Humaine
September 12–18, 2022
Curator: Amélie Coster
The fifth edition of Echelle Humaine will once again partner with Festival d’Automne à Paris by echoing the portraits of choreographers Marlène Monteiro Freitas and Noé Soulier. It is the figure of the solo, but even more so the prolific and incompressible heterogeneity of the individual that will be at the heart of this new edition. Revealing multiple aptitudes, contradictory desires, discordant images, unspeakable discourses, the invited artists come up against these rich and implacable profusions, which tirelessly, and fortunately, counteract polarities.
