Agir pour le Vivant
Meet the artists Kader Attia, Eva Jospin & Nicola Delon
For the second consecutive year, the Foundation is renewing its support for the Festival Agir pour le Vivant, which will be held in Arles from 22 to 29 August 2022.
As part of this partnership, the Foundation is offering the live conversation: Creators facing the Climate Emergency in the Méjan chapel (Arles), inviting the artists Kader Attia and Eva Jospin and the architect Nicola Delon to share their experiences on the theme of new forms of commitment in the field of artistic creation.
Artists have always had infinite capabilities of being precursors in inventing new forms, just like architects. Today, yesterday's constructions have to become the foundation of artistic creations to create new narratives, new forms and production processes. Through the field of emotion and dreams, through sensitivity, the artist can bring in new imaginaries of transition and push us towards the starting line, at an urgent pace to confront the climate emergency and respond to our society's immense current challenges.
Get access to the full program of the Festival online.
Speakers
Kader Attia (born in 1970 in Dugny) grew up between France and Algeria and has been developing for the past twenty years a multidisciplinary practice nourished by his multicultural roots. He explores the perspective of societies on their history, notably the privatisation and repression, the violence and loss, and the way they affect the evolution of individuals and the nations, both connected to the collective memory. His research has brought him to the idea of reparation, a concept he philosophically developed in his writings and symbolically through his art. The principle of reparation being a constant in nature - is within humanity, that all living systems, social or cultural, can be considered as an infinite process of reparation, closely related to loss and wounds.
His work has been shown in many international exhibits, notably, at the Kunsthaus Zürich, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Hayward Gallery in London, MacVal in Vitry-sur-Seine, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, the S.M.A.K in Ghent, and the Whitechapel Gallery in London. His work has also been shown at the 12th Biennale of Gwangju, the 12th Biennale of Shanghai, the 12th Manifesta, Palermo, the 57th Venice Biennale, and dOCUMENTA(13).
Curator of the Berlin Biennale 2022, winner of the Joan Miró (2017) and of the Marcel Duchamp prize (2016), Kader Attia is represented by the galleries Continua, Lehmann Maupin, and Nagel Draxler.
Practical information
Saturday August 27, 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Place : Méjan Chapel (Chapel du Méjan), Arles (France)
Guests : Kader Attia, visual artist and curator, Eva Jospin, visual artist and Nicola Delon, architect and founding member of the collective, Encore Heureux.
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