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Things slowly curve out of sight Contributing artists: Julien Crépieux, Isabelle Cornaro, Gintaras Didžiapetris, Ryan Gander, Mark Geffriaud, Juozas Laivys, Cyrille Maillot, Benoît Maire, Bruno Persat, Clément Rodzielski, Chloé Quenum, Raphaël Zarka On the XL chapter of his novel Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne includes a set of sketches indicating the non-linear path of a well-told story ; narrative digressions appear as deviations from a straight line. Between the curve of forgotten things from Richard Brautigan’s poem and the ones from Tristram Shandy, the works gathered in this exhibition draw the curves of a story derived from a shared living whose linearity remains hypothetical. In other words. We walk. We move forward, we come back, we look forward. We live. Alone, alone, alone, with our friends, with our ghosts, at our place, at their places, outside, inside. We learn to get lost. We try to get lost. We get lost. We come back. The subject goes away. The making of an exhibition raises the question of time. Times. Of the conjugation of different times in a space. Spaces. Physical. Conceptual. Fictional. Emotional. Fragments of spaces, which the visitor, in the best of the worlds, will take with him. Possibly. Autumn 2010. Elodie Royer and Yoann Gourmel are writers and curators based in Paris. They both used to work at gb agency, Paris, where among others they curated “220 days”, a long-term in progress exhibition (September 2007 – March 2008) in collaboration with four invited artists. Together, they organized the exhibitions “The Crystal Hypothesis”, Gamec, Bergamo (2010), “25 square meters per second or The spirit of the hive” at No Soul For Sale, Tate Modern (2010), “La Panique du Noyau”, ESA, Brest (2010), “Les Feuilles”, Super and Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2008), “L'anomalie d'Ararat”, IrmaVepLab, Châtillon sur Marne (2008), “… with bizarre rooms in whimsical shapes (& the library)”, gb agency, Villa Warsaw, Warsaw (2006) and “Le Spectre des Armatures”, Glassbox, Paris (2006, with Mathilde Villeneuve). Their texts are published in catalogues and magazines.
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