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accrochage «Struggle(s)» april - june 2012
Michael Elmgreen, born in 1961 in Denmark, and Ingar Dragset, born in 1969 in Norway, are the artists behind the duo Elmgreen & Dragset. They live and work between London and Berlin.
Working together since 1995, they have been creating sculptures, installations and performances in which the conventions concerning presentation and appreciation of art are being challenged. In their works Elmgreen & Dragset have been exploring the cultural, social and political functions of public spaces. Questioning the conventional understanding of social spaces in a playful, open and never didactic way, the artists comment on the increasingly economic character of social relations – a development experienced as quite problematic.
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accrochages «Sexe, Argent et Pouvoir» janvier - mars 2013, «Rouge» september - december 2012
Born in 1963 in England. Lives and works in London.
Visual artist Tracey Emin uses her life’s events as an inspiration for her works, which range from painting, drawing, video and installation, to photography, needlework and sculpture. She reveals intimate details of her life, hopes, humiliations, failures and successes, in pieces that are frequently both tragic and humorous. Emin engages the viewers with representations of universal emotions and establishes a dialogue with them. Her creations have an immediacy and often sexually provocative attitude that firmly locates her body of work within the tradition of feminist discourse.
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accrochage «Voyages Intérieurs» april - june 2013
Born in 1973 in Argentina. Lives and works in Buenos Aires and Paris.
Leandro Erlich creates sculptures and humorous, interactive installations that deal with illusions, breaching limits and unstable boundaries. Through this transgression of limits, the artist challenges certain absolutes and the institutions that reinforce them. His artworks explore the way we understand certain kind of phenomena and interact with different spaces. Without the rigor of scientific experimentation, he challenges our perception of reality, undermining certainties. Erlich draws inspiration from literature, notably from the work of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges. The world of film also inspire him with directors such as Alfred Hitchcock, Roman Polanski, Luis Buñuel and David Lynch, whom, as Erlich says “have used the everyday as a stage for creating a fictional world obtained through the psychological subversion of everyday spaces.”
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