NONFICTION
NONFICTION releases its sixth (and last) printed exhibition dedicated to post-internet generation artists through critical studies.
Issue 6: Prenez soin de vous (“take care of yourself”), or treating is not caring. Prenez soin de vous is an exhibition dedicated to intimacy and care, flesh and trauma, repair. Featuring for the first time a choral composition of texts, by the project’s founding curator and art critic Céline Poizat, this latest NONFICTION release offers an intimate poetic editorial turn that will never tire of resonating with marginalized experiences and aspirations for another life. Prenez soin de vous is a thoughtful farewell to a generation of artists who are turning their individual experiences into a revolution in the collective imagination.
Prenez soin de vous is an exhibition constructed as a visual exquisite corpse. From one page to the next, one form calls forth another, held together by a tightly woven thread of resonance. Prenez soin de vous is a curatorial narrative that attempts to gradually deconstruct the gaze: “Treating is not caring. Pain is a being in the world. Illness does not belong to us. Being able-bodied is a social construct. Healing is not an end in itself. Distancing is a Western structure. Relationship is a choice. Death is a troubling companion. The tearing apart of souls silences domination. Tenderness is political. Patience too. Above all, gentleness.” (Céline Poizat)
With: Arnaud Adami, Carla Adra, Jaana-Kristiina Alakoski, Angélique Aubrit & Ludovic Beillard, Carla Barkatz, Jeanne Beyaert, Lucile Boiron, Laura Botterau & Marine Fiquet, Clémence Bruno, Solveig Burkhard, Laurie Charles, Zoé Chauvet, Célia Coette, Sacha Collin-Rivière, Anna de Castro Barbosa, Romane de Watteville, Stine Deja, Gioia di Girolamo, Ines Dobelle, Antoine Donzeaud, Lucie Férézou, Côme Ferrasse, Aurélie Ferruel & Florentine Guédon, Anaïs Gauthier, Constantin Hartenstein, Camille Juthier, Eliska Konečná, Sido Lansari, Anne Le Troter, Bence Magyarlaki, Anastassia Simonin & Kazuo Marsden, Caroline Mauxion, Louise Perrussel, Simon Petit Fort, Théo Pézeril, Benoît Pieron, Marilou Poncin, Sabrina Rothlisberger Belkacem, Marguerite Rouan, Adèle Salaün Meuriot, Camille Sart, Hugo Servanin, Nanténé Traoré, Jeanne Vicérial, Liao Wen, Grace Woodcock, Inês Zenha.
Publishers and Editors in Chief: Céline Poizat Sabari. / Graphic: Ariane Delahaye—adapted from an original design by Mathieu Meyer. / Calligraphy: Jean Baptiste Normand
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