Thursday 06 February How can we learn together to create connections with shared art? In this spirit of openness and outreach to the inhabitants of Villeurbanne, IAC and URDLA will extend their activities into the street by multiplying artistic encounters based on exhibitions they host.
La Fabrique du Nous, is also a school established by the Brain space laboratory for the purposes of experimenting with other models of relationships based on the sensitive experience that art offers. The objective here is also to discover the intersecting research done by artists and scientists with the potential to question our vision of the world for the purposes of transforming ourselves. For its first edition, La Fabrique du Nous has chosen to build upon ritual practices driven mainly by female artists for the power of the connections that they generate.
Originally intended to open last Spring, a Spring that was lost to us, it will now take place in the Autumn. Representing even more of a challenge in this time of social distancing, La Fabrique du Nous emerges as a deep breath of fresh air.
By celebrating the winter solstice, the artists invite us to prepare Spring of next year and a renewal: learning together to craft Us , is necessary, now more than ever. The ritual, like art, inaugurates and repeats a series of codified acts and words. Religious, magical or daily, of passage, purification or bewitchment, it is located between being and doing, between gesture and speech. Symbolic in nature, the ritual creates the conditions for the repeated emergence of related communities, and of Us , at the heart of this project.
In this regenerative period of waiting and expectation, ancient or newer rituals are potential processes of transformation that can renew the stories we tell and outline a different relationship with our surroundings. This exhibition, the result of the efforts of a whole team, weaves together work done by historically renowned artists such as Lygia Pape, Gina Pane and Adrian Piper, selected from the collection of the IAC and other public collections, with work done by guest artists, including participants from Brain space laboratory.
