straddle the line between form and function
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straddle the line between form and function
Communiqué de presse STRADDLE THE LINE BETWEEN FORM AND FUNCTION Hadrien GERENTON (FR)/ Micah HESSE (USA)/ Rachel KOOLEN (NL) Irina LOTAREVICH (USA)/ Julien MEERT (BE)/ Loup SARION (FR) 17 juin – 25 juillet 2015 June 17 - July 25, 2015 Irina Lotarevich, Untitled, 2015. Lotion, liquid and dried Listerine in drill cases, 132 x 66 x 8 cm - 52 x 26 x 3 1/8 in. © Irina Lotarevich. Courtesy Galerie Jérôme Pauchant, Paris. Visuels presse sur demande Press images on request Galerie Jérôme Pauchant Communiqué de presse STRADDLE THE LINE BETWEEN FORM AND FUNCTION Chevaucher la ligne entre la forme et la fonction, et non plus suivre le corollaire moderniste selon lequel «la forme suit la fonction». Fruit d’une idéologie fonctionnaliste, stipulant que la beauté d’un objet fabriqué provient de son adaptation à sa fonction, cette formule reste envoutée par l’idée de Beau et prisonnière d’un ravissement orienté pour les choses «nobles» de ce monde. Dans cette exposition collective, les artistes troublent la ligne de démarcation entre la forme et la fonction, opèrent par transformations: non pas «transfiguration du banal», mais régression à la banalité des objets, à leur puissance mobilisatrice et instigatrice de mondes. Réduction de l’objet donc, à ce qu’il est tel qu’il est, jusqu’à ce point le plus bas, où l’on frôle le réel: cette vie «dégradée» que l’on cherche activement à recouvrir d’un voile de pudeur. Ici se joue le retour vers une ontologie plate, qui engloberait indifféremment le sacré et le profane, le réel et le virtuel, le back- et le on stage, sans hiérarchie ni valeur, mais sans en épuiser pour autant le pouvoir de fascination. Investissant les lieux communs de notre vie pratique, à l’image des parkings dont on minore l’intérêt jusqu’au moment de leur utilisation, les artistes recomposent notre attachement aux choses dans ce qu’elles ont d’hypermatériel, là «où la matière est toujours déjà une forme, où la forme est toujours déjà une information, et où l’“immatériel” apparaît pour ce qu’il est: une fable qui enfume les esprits» . De cette vie mondaine, quotidienne ou ordinaire, seuls les designers semblent avoir le souci d’en organiser l’appareillage complexe qui en révèle le monde. Pourtant c’est bien à partir de cette infrastructure, tant technique qu’économique, que se développent les formes politiques et juridiques, que se déploient nos représentations cognitives, que prennent racine nos affects et notre rapport à soi, aux autres, au monde. Parce que l’appareillage nous traverse, nous construit, nous met en relation les uns avec les autres, il doit aujourd’hui pouvoir se vivre sous la forme d’une expérience esthétique, qui en revisite la portée critique. Ainsi en va-t-il des bannières en berne réalisées par Loup Sarion. Porteuses d’une forme de rêve collectif qui les redouble en symbole, elles affirment le paradoxe d’être à la fois le véhicule d’une morale consumériste, comme sa bassesse programmée. Chez Irina Lotarevich, les boites de la marque d’outils DeWALT, remplies d’eau croupissante mélangée à des cosmétiques ou du bain de bouche LISTERINE, mobilisent la puissance évocatrice et ornementale des marques placardées sur les murs de nos villes. Chez Hadrien Gerenton, le mobilier domestique se voit détourné vers des usages insolites qui en redéfinissent l’usage, la fonction suit alors la forme ; quand Rachel Koolen investit l’espace de pièces en instance de résurrection. Pour chacun, il s’agit non plus de travailler contre, et à cause d’une base matérielle qui régulerait nos comportements, mais avec et grâce à elle. De ces retournements de regards, les artistes nous présentent la logistique pure, ce par quoi les choses ne sont jamais que ce que l’on projette sur elles, en acquérant leur «essence» par l’usage singulier que l’on peut en faire. Marion Zilio 1. B. Stiegler, Économie de l’hypermatériel et psychopouvoir, Paris, Mille et une nuits, 2009. Press release STRADDLE THE LINE BETWEEN FORM AND FUNCTION To straddle the line between form and function, and not to follow the modernist corollary, which implies that form follows function. As a result of a functionalist ideology stating that the beauty of a produced object comes from its ability to adapt to its function, this concept remains enchanted by the notion of Beauty and imprisoned in rapture for the noble things present in this world. The artists taking part in this group exhibition blur the boundaries between form and function, they act with transformations: not as “metamorphosing banality” but as the objects’ decline to banality, their power to mobilize and generate worlds. The object is thus reduced to what it is as it is, up to the lowest point near reality: this damaged life that we want to hide under a veil of decency. Here the return of a flat ontology is at stake, where sacred and secular, real and virtual, backstage and onstage would be indifferently embraced without hierarchy or value, though not exhausting its capacity to fascinate. By investing common places of our practical lives, such as car parks that we tend to ignore until we use them, the artists redefine our attachment to material things in the “hypermateriality” they have, where “matter is always already a form, where form is always already an information, and where immateriality appears for what it is: an invention that can trick minds”1. In this high, daily or ordinary life, only designers seem to care enough to organize their intricate apparatus, revealing this world. However it is from this both technical and economical infrastructure that political and legal forms develop, that our cognitive representations expand, that our affects and inner relationships take root, our relationships with others, with the world. And because this apparatus goes through us, builds us, connects us one another, it should be lived today as an aesthetic experience allowing a new critical range. So are the half-mast banners created by Loup Sarion. Flourishing a kind of collective dream which rises them to symbol, the banners represent the contradiction between being the vector of a consumerist moral and its programmed baseness. The DeWALT tool cases of Irina Lotarevich, filled with stagnant water mixed with beauty products or Listerine mouthwash rally the evocative and ornamental strength of trademarks omnipresent on our city walls. The house furniture of Hadrien Gérenton is distorted to unusual uses redefining their purpose: the function then follows the form; while Rachel Koolen places artworks pending resurrection. For all, this is not about working against and because of a material basis which would regulate our behaviors, but with it and thanks to it. The artists present here pure logistics from these diverted looks, what makes things what we envisage them to be, acquiring their “essence” by the singular use of what we can make with it. Marion Zilio (translated from French) 1 B. Stiegler, Économie de l’hypermatériel et psychopouvoir, Paris, Mille et une nuits, 2009. > Hadrien GERENTON (né en 1987) Vit et travaille à Paris (FR). Diplômé de L’École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris en 2014 (Ateliers Claude Closky et Michel Francois). Il a exposé son travail à NewGalerie (Paris/New York), à la Yia La Confidentielle (Paris), à la Friche belle de Mai (Marseille), à l'Espace culturel Louis Vuitton (Paris) ainsi qu'au Palais des BeauxArts (Paris) et au Carré Sainte-Anne de Montpellier. Créer des objets est une façon de générer des nouvelles situations et des interactions entre les formes et les regardeurs. Selon Hadrien Gérenton, les objets ont leur existence autonome, leur propre logique. Il tente d'extraire des éléments du monde existant pour en façonner un nouveau, totalement virtuel, avec ses propres codes de représentations. > Micah HESSE (né en 1991) Vit et travaille à New York (USA). Diplômé de la Cooper Union for the Advancement of Art and Science, New-York. Il a tout récemment participé à une exposition collective «Telepathy or Esperanto?», au Centre d’art contemporain FUTURA à Prague. (2 avril-10 mai 2015). Ses vidéos sans sophistication esthétique, portent dimension à la fois poétique et critique sur le monde. une > Rachel KOOLEN (née en 1979) Vit à Enschede (NL), travaille à Enschede (NL) et Bruxelles (BE), elle est diplômée au Piet Zwart Institute en 2011 et poursuit de 2007 à 2009 ses recherches au Jan van Eyck Academie à Maastricht. Expositions collectives récentes: «Monumentalism», Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2010), «Magic Trade Love Objects», Art Fair, Genève (2012) et «The Long Leash», by The Ister, Brussels (2013) Exposition personnelle «Swallow A Bird» à la Johan Berggren Gallery, Malmö (SE) en 2014. Rachel, dans son travail modèle les matériaux à la main comme s'ils étaient une extension de sa pensée -une chaîne de pensées devient plastique- alors qu'elle se sert des matériaux comme un moyen de spéculation rétroactive. Lorsque cette ligne directrice est abandonnée, le travail de sculpture commence à agir comme un vecteur de signes adultérins. Le processus de libération et la reconsolidation finale des energies temporairement détériorées se stabilisent dans l'équilibre fragile et précaire de l'installation. > Hadrien GERENTON (born in 1987) Lives and works in Paris (FR). Holding a degree from the Fine Arts School of Beaux-Arts in Paris (with Claude Cosky and Michel François studios) Hadrien Gérenton has exhibited in NewGalerie (Paris/New York), the Yia La Confidentielle (Paris), the Friche belle de Mai (Marseille), theLouis Vuitton Cultural Space (Paris) the Palais des Beaux-Arts (Paris) and the Carré Sainte-Anne in Montpellier. Creating objects is a way to generate new situations and interactions between their shapes and the viewer. According to Hadrien Gérenton, objects exist independently, they have their own logic. He aims to extract elements of the existing world in order to create a new one, completely virtual, with its own codes of representations. > Micah HESSE (born in 1991) Lives and works in New York (USA). Micah has a degree from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Art and Science, New York. He has recently taken part in a group show «Telepathy or Esperanto?», at the Contemporary art center FUTURA in Prague (April 2-May 10, 2015). His videos, with not aesthetical sophistication bear a poetic yet critical dimension on our world. > Rachel KOOLEN (born in 1979) Lives in Enschede (NL), works in Enschede (NL) and Brussels (BE). She received her M.A. Fine Art at Piet Zwart Institute in 2011 and was from 2007 to 2009 a fellow researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht. Her recent exhibitions include «Monumentalism», Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2010), «Magic Trade Love Objects», Art Fair Geneva (2012) and «The Long Leash», by The Ister, Brussels (2013). Solo show: «Swallow A Bird» at Johan Berggren Gallery, Malmö (SE) in 2014. Rachel in her work moulds materials at hand as if they were an extension of her thinking -a chain of thought becomes plasticwhile she serves the material as a means for retroactive speculation. When through this bond predominant direction is abandoned the sculptural work begins to act like a carrier of adulterous signs. The process of release and finally rebinding of deteriorated energies temporarily stabilises in the fragile and easily agitated equilibrium of an installation. > Irina LOTAREVICH (née en 1991) Vit et travaille à New York (USA). Diplômée d’un BFA du Hunter College, NY en 2013. Elle a tout récemment participé à deux expositions collectives «Telepathy or Esperanto?», au Centre d’art contemporain FUTURA à Prague (2 avril-10 mai 2015) et "Seed and Grave", à New York. Ses détournements de valises ou mallettes, objets readymade transformés, questionnent autant l’objet, ses possibles contenus, que son devenir sculpture. > Julien MEERT (né en 1983) Vit et travaille à Bruxelles (BE) Diplômé de l'Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles en 2003, et d'un master de l'ENSAV-La Cambre, Bruxelles en 2009. Régulièrement exposé à Bruxelles et plus largement en Belgique, Julien Meert participe ici, pour la première fois à une exposition de groupe en France, et vient de réaliser une première exposition personnelle chez Balice Hertling à New York. Ses portraits semblent figés dans un état de suspension. Dans un premier temps, ils peuvent paraître intimidants par la fixité de leurs regards, puis comme par effet de miroir, nous refléter une palette d’émotions communes. > Loup SARION (né en 1987) Vit et travaille à Paris (FR). Diplômé de l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris (ateliers Claude Closky et Michel François), il a également étudié à la Cooper Union School of Art à New York (avec Walid Raad, Yto Barrada et Dennis Adams). Il a récemment exposé chez JeanRoch Dard à Bruxelles, ExoExo à Paris, Demon’s mouth à Oslo, Yia Art Fair à Paris, Dumbo Arts Center à Brooklyn, Espace culturel Louis Vuitton à Paris. Son approche, empruntant sa méthode à celle du chercheur, se fait sans autorité ni simplification. Elle inclue et assume la mécompréhension du réel, mais tente malgré tout d’y échapper, d’y adhérer ou tout simplement d’en produire des images et espaces à explorer. Son travail se définit par ce désir inexplicable de générer des formes face à l’ennui, au laisser-aller, à la boucle du quotidien, au réel inadapté, à la condensation qui se dépose sur le visible. > Irina LOTAREVICH (born in 1991) Lives and works in New York (USA). Holds a BFA from Hunter College, NY in 2013. She recently took part in two group shows entitled «Telepathy or Esperanto?», at the Contemporary art center FUTURA in Prague (April 2-May 10, 2015) and "Seed and Grave" in New York. Irina’s briefcases or carry cases distorsions, transformed readymade objects, are questioning the object, its possible contents as well as its future as a sculpture. > Julien MEERT (born in 1983) Lives and works in Brussels (BE) Holds a diploma from the Royal Academy of Beaux-Arts in Brussels (2003) and a Master degree from ENSAV-La Cambre, Brussels (2009). Regularly shown in Brussels and widely in Belgium, Julien Meert takes part here, for the first time in France to a group show, and has recently had a first solo show at Balice Hertling in New York. His portraits seem fixed in a suspension state. At first sight, their glance may be intimidating, then as a mirror effect, they unveil a wide and common range of emotions. > Loup SARION (born in 1987) Lives and works in Paris (FR). Loup Sarion holds a BFA from École des Beaux-arts of Paris (Classes of Claude Closky and Michel François), and studied at the Cooper Union School of Art, New York (Classes of Walid Raad, Yto Barrada and Dennis Adams). He has exhibited at JeanRoch Dard, Brussels, Exoexo, Paris, Demon’s mouth, Oslo, Yia Art Fair, Paris, Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn, Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris. His approach, while in the posture of a researcher, is done without authority neither simplification. It includes and assumes the misunderstanding of the real. Through the temptation to escape, or to join, or just to produce images and spaces to explore the results. His work is defined by this inexplicable desire to generate forms that investigate boredom, carelessness, the everyday loop, the inadequacy of the real, the condensation accumulating on the visible. HADRIEN GÉRENTON B.1987 in Lyon (FR) Lives and works in Paris (FR) Education 2012-2014 MFA at Ecole Nationale supérieur des Beaux-Arts de Paris (ENSBA) 2008-2011 BFA at Ecole des Beaux Arts de Montpellier Upcoming projects 2015-2017 De Ateliers artists Program, Amsterdam Group Exhibitions / projects 2015 Cavallo della linea tra forma e funzione, duo show with Loup Sarion, GalerieJerome Pauchant, St Briacsur-mer Life ain't fair, Galerie Arnaud Deschin, 22 Visconti, Paris OHNE, tutti sistemati, private apartment, Paris La Grande Bouffe, Bastille Design Center, curated by La Gad, Paris Zombie Routine, New galerie, curated by ExoExo, Paris A couteaux tires, friche Belle de Mai, Marseille Les Bains, , Les Bains douches with Galerie Jérôme Pauchant, Paris 2014 Iracema, Villa D'alesia, private apartment, Paris La Serre at Mfc2, Galerie Michele Didier, Paris 2013 Vanishing Point, Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris, curated by Kathy Alliou Achievement, Belvedere, Palais de Beaux Arts, Paris curated by Jean Baptiste Lenglet and Eva Barto Modifications, Z.K.U, Berlin, curated by Lucia Schreyer Tendresse, Espace sans frontières, Paris 2012 Drawing Room, Carre Saint Anne, Montpellier 2011 Mapra Gallery, Lyon FID, Cite des Arts, Paris Publications 2014 Artist book 'Recit', a proposition of Jean-Baptiste Lenglet and Maxime Penaud 2013 Achievement, Exhibition Catalog 2011 Drawings in Roven, Critic Magazine for Drawing MICAH HESSE B. 1991, New Mexico, USA Lives and works in Chinatown , New York City Education Cooper Union for the Advancement of Art and Science, New York Exhibitions 2015 Screening of ‘Lonely Without a Company’ and ‘Types of Stereo’ for the symposium ‘Speculation and Counter-Speculation’ Curated by Joshua Simon Museum of Bat Yam (MoBY), Tel Aviv. Online feature of ‘Lonely Without a Company’, Dismagazine. ‘Telepathy or Esperanto’ (group show), FUTURA Centre for Contemporary art, Prague. 2014 Office Riddim - Screening, ISSUE Project Room, Brooklyn. 2013 Into Spirits, Cooper Union, New York. RACHEL KOOLEN B. 1979, Rotterdam, NL Lives in Enschede,NL. Works in Enschede, NL and Brussels, BE Education 2009-2011 MA Fine Arts, Piet Zwart Institute. Rotterdam, NL. 2007-08 Fellow researcher Fine Art, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL. Selected Exhibitions 2014 Swallow A Bird, Malmö, Johan Berggren Gallery (solo show) FORTUNE I: Camping In Eden, with Lynn Hershman Leeson. Curated byThe Ister. Paris, Moins-1 (duo show) Sniwt, group show curated by Sils. Rotterdam, W lf_rt Project Space The Sun in Our Window, collaboration with Zinaida Tchelidze. Brussels: Le Sceptre. Comrades Of Time Comrades, group show curated by Whatspace. Art Fair Brussels A Thousand Varied Uses, group show curated by Kevin Gallagher. Madrid, Nogueras Blanchard 2013 Urschleim, group show curated by Rolf Notowny. Copenhagen, Fauna Portmanteau, group show curated by Allison Katz. Malmö, Johan Berggren Gallery. Maybes, group show curated by Jens Strandberg and Monika Vykoukal. Vienna, Glockengasse 9 The Long Leash, group show curated by The Ister. Brussels, WOLKE POPPOSITIONS #2. Curated by Whatspace. Brussels Off Art Fair. 2012 Teach me, Pet me, group show curated by Livia Pancu. IaşiTranzit Romania, Office Iaşi. The Weight of Living, group show London, MOT International. Comrades of time, group show curated by Whatspace. Tilburg, NL, Project Space Tilburg. Magic Love Trade Objects, group show curated by Jan Verwoert. Geneva, Art12Geneva Talking Hats. Tilburg, NL, LeoXIII (solo) 2011 Anthem for the People’s Tomorrow, curated by Ellen Blumenstein. Rotterdam, Hofplein Station. 2010 Monumentalism, group show curated by Jelle Bouwhuis. Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Life: A User’s Manual - Art Sheffield 2010, group show curated by Frederique Bergholz and Annie Fletcher. Sheffield,Yorkshire Artspace. Dear audience, I’d like to invite you to anticipate a moment of recognition with me, collaboration with Camilla Wills and Susana Pedrosa In: Object Lag. Haarlem, NL, Nieuwe Vide. Done to a dead end & The dead or a live sale, directed by Lee Welsh. Rotterdam, SD&G. Performances 2012 Three artist walk into a bar, collaboration with Edmund Cook and Kirsty Roberts. Curated by Black Swan Curatorial Collective. Amsterdam, Veem Theater 2011 As each of us was many people we became quite a crowd! Rotterdam, Bonheur Theater 2010 Dear audience, I’d like to invite you to anticipate a moment of recognition with me, with Camilla Wills and Susana Pedrosa. In: Object Lag. Haarlem, NL, Nieuwe Vide. Publications Baby Doc, published and edited by Camilla Wills and Laetitia Paviani, Paris, 2015 Contributions by Morgan Courtois, Margaret Drabble, Lynne Tillman, Julien Bécourt, Catherine Malabou (journal) Love Your Parasites, publisher: Paraguay Press, Paris, 2015, edited by Camilla Wills Contributions by Valerie Snobeck, Amelie Von Wulffen, Kerstin Brästch, Laetitia Paviani, Allison Katz, France-Lise McGurn, Justin Lieberman, Stanya Kahn, Jamie Partridge (book) Masquerade Reader, publisher: Revolver, Berlin, 2010. Produced by: If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution, Van Abbemuseum, Dutch Art Institute and Piet Zwart Institute. Design: Joris Kritis, Eindhoven, NL, 2010 (reader) Monumentalism - History, National Identity and Contemporary Art. Publisher: Stedelijk Museum and NAi Publishers, 2010. Design: David Bennewith (catalogue) Chanting Baldessari - a Masterclass. Publisher: B.A.C.A. International, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, 2008. (catalogue) Jan van Eyck Yearbook 2008. Publisher: Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL, 2009. Design: Jayme Yen It’s About time - Jan van Eyck Yearbook 2007. Publisher: Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL, 2008. Design: Raoul Wassenaar in collaboration with M.V. Maastricht. IRINA LOTAREVICH B. 1991, Rybinsk, RUS Lives and works in New York, USA Education 2013 BFA, Hunter College 2009-2010 Cornell University Selected Exhibitions 2015 Telepathy or Esperanto?, Futura Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague Seed and Grave, 428 Menahan Street, Queens, New York 2013 Hunter College BFA Thesis Exhibition, New York JULIEN MEERT B.in 1983 Lives and works in Brussels Education 2009 Master, ENSAV-La cambre, Brussels 2003 Royal academy of fine arts, Brussels Selected Exhibitions 2015 Un-scene 3, Group show, Wiels, Brussels Présente, Group show, Cac La traverse, Alfortville Colossal youth, Solo show, Balice Hertling, New york 2014 Chorus, Art & Music festival curated with Jonathan Poliart, HEKLA & "La Charcuterie", Brussels Portraits, Residency, Le Vecteur, Charleroi Men with broken hearts, Group show, De la charge, Brussels Des chevals, Group show, Island, Brussels ATLAS, Group show, MOT international, Brussels Based Painting, Group show, Croxhapox, Gent 2013 Boomerang, Group show, La Cambre, Brussels Pétales, Solo show, Island, Brussels 2012 De pictura, Group show, Rossi contemporary, Brussels Magic city, Solo show, 38 Quai Notre-Dame, Tournai Paintings, Solo show, Rossi Contemporary, Brussels The great escape, with Delphine Somers, Mont Saint-Eugène, Brussels 2011 Bikini, Group show, Komplot, Brussels Family plot, Group show, Galerie Baronian Francey, Brussels"In the company of humour" Group show, Lokaal 01, Breda Homework, Group show, Alain Servais collection, Brussels 2010 Je=ici, Group how, Albus Lux Gallery, Roosendaal Silex Lex, Group show, Pianofabriek, Brussels Je sont les autres, Group show Curated by Xavier-Noiret-Thomé,, Incise, Charleroi 2009 This is no ordinary love, with Jean-Baptiste Bernadet & Martin Laborde, Frederic Desimpel, Brussels Coups de coeur et audioguides, Group show, Rossi contemporary, Brussels LOUP SARION B.1987 in Toulouse (FR) Lives and works in Paris (FR) Education 2011-2015 Diplomé des Beaux-arts de Paris (Ateliers Claude Closky et Michel François). 2013 Cooper Union School of Art, New York (classes of Walid Raad, Yto Barrada et Dennis Adams). Upcoming September 2015 Le lait du miroir, Le 6B, Saint-Denis, FR (cur. Martina Sabbadini) Selected Exhibitions 2015 Cavallo della linea tra forma e funzione, duo show with Hadrien Gérenton, GalerieJerome Pauchant, St Briacsur-mer Ohne, 5 rue de la fidélité, Paris, FR (cur. Noémie Vulpian) Life ain’t fair, 22 visconti, Paris, FR (cur. Arnaud Deschin) Plan B, De la charge, Brussels, BE (cur. Michel François) Grande Bouffe - fun foods & great spirits -, Bastille design center, Paris, FR - march 2015 - (curator of) Plates of the present, project by DUST, Ivry, FR (cur. Thomas Fougeirol & Jo-ey Tang) Late night at the continental, Bains Douches, Paris, FR (cur. Jérôme Pauchant) My internet was down for 5 minutes…, Galerie JeanRoch Dard, Brussels, BE (cur. Elisa Rigoulet) I cut out the mug and went to the bottle, EXO, Paris, FR (w. Strauss Bourque Lafrance) No highway in the sky, Demon’s Mouth, Oslo, Norway (cur. Jack Heard) 2014 Stay Wild, Courtesy L.A. for La Gad, YIA artfair, Paris, FR Comin’ Thru’ Paradoxes, Stand 214, Saint Ouen, FR (w. Eva Barto) IRACEMA, Villa D’alesia, Paris, FR (cur. Romain Vicari) La Serre at mfc2, galerie MFC Michèle Didier, Paris, FR (curator of) 2013 Benefit, The Kitchen, New York, US Modifications, ZKU Center for Art and Urbanitics, Berlin, DE (cur. Lucia Scheyer) Point, Limite, Zéro, Espace Culturel Vuitton, Paris, FR (cur. Kathy Alliou) Curating for a tree #3, #4, Cloître des Bernardins, Paris, FR Rue Goublier, Paris, FR (cur. Romain Vicari) Group show, Espace Sans Frontières, Paris, FR (cur. Arno Gisinger) 2012 Miracles: seven reboots, Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn, US Curating for a tree, Cinq Sept Club, Paris, FR (cur. Mathieu Mercier) Backstage, Backlash Gallery, Paris, FR (cur. Mathieu Mercier) Faces of displacement, 6B, Saint-Denis, FR (cur. Daphné Le Sergent)