Exhibition / Museum
Dust
The Plates of the Present
21 Oct 2020 - 22 Mar 2021
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« Dust : The Plates of the Present », projet initié par Thomas Fougeirol et Jo-ey Tang © Adagp, Paris 2020 © Photo : Centre Pompidou, Mnam-Cci/Dist. RMN-GP
Dust.The Plates of the Present is a photographic installation made between 2013 and 2018 at the initiative of Thomas Fougeirol, the French painter, and Jo-ey Tang, the American artist and curator. Together they invited each of one hundred and twenty-four artists – visual artists, musicians, writers and video-makers of a variety of nationalities – to produce a series of eight photograms in an improvised dark room in Ivry-sur-Seine. Dust is a grandiose collective work that pays homage to a rapidly disappearing form of image.
« Dust : The Plates of the Present », projet initié par Thomas Fougeirol et Jo-ey Tang © Adagp, Paris 2020 © Photo : Centre Pompidou, Mnam-Cci/Dist. RMN-GP
In 2019, Thomas Fougeirol and Jo-Ey Tang donated the whole of the Dust series –1031 photograms and a film –to the Centre Pompidou. This exceptional work constitutes a considerable enrichment of the collection in which experiment photography occupies a place of primordial importance.
Photograms – marked with light and experience that escape forms of previsualisation – belong to a whole image culture that is on the point of disappearing, replaced by digital images produced by algorithm calculations. It is nevertheless interesting to observe the interest that the photogram technique continues to arouse among a large number of artists, not only photographers, who are ready to engage in these visual recreations.
The resulting collective work is thus a homage to photography, to its prehistory and to the 20th century avant-gardes which accorded a special place to photograms in their experiments.
All of the acquired work is shown for the first time in the form of a total installation covering all the walls and all the picture rails. In addition, it enables the public to discover an original audio installation consisting of commentaries by the artists.
American and European artists are represented equally in this collective work, a symbol of rich artistic and cultural exchanges between these two geographic and cultural hubs. In this sense, Dust questions certain issues facing the contemporary art world, such as the question of the author, the collective and the pooling of resources. At a time when physical distancing is imposed and questions, among other issues, modes of artistic cooperation, this project stands as a powerful testimony to the possibilities of collective action and exchange.
The artists
Madeleine Aktypi, Roxane Alaime, Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann, Daniela Baldelli, Antoine Barberon, Anthea Behm, Jesús Alberto Benítez, Emilie Benoist, Simon Bernheim, Julien Bettoli, Viktoria Binschtok, Jean-Luc Blanc, Julien Bouillon, Jade Boyeldieu d’Auvigny, Guillaume Bresson, Nancy Brooks Brody, Laura Brunellière, Aïda Bruyère, Molly Jo Burke, A.K. Burns, Robin Cameron, Julien Carreyn, Davide Cascio, Léo Chalié, Lorraine Châteaux, Éléonore Cheneau, Léo Chesneau, Victoire Coyon, Cécile Dauchez, Raffaella della Olga, Nicolas Descottes, Chris Domenick, Antoine Donzeaud, Ben Dowell, DROOID5Z, Mimosa Echard, Sonja Engelhardt, Joy Episalla, Sylvie Fanchon, Camila Farina, Marina Faust, Amanda Grace Finkel, Benoit Fougeirol, Thomas Fougeirol, ¡Katie B Funk!, Paul Gacon, Munro Galloway, Mar García Albert, Theo Ghiglia, Daiga Grantina, Nathan Gwynne, Hiroshi Hayakawa, Yin Ho, My-Lan Hoang-Thuy, Helen Hoffelt, Katherine Hubbard, Mo Husain, Hervé Ic, Joseph Imhauser, Betsy Kenyon, Tatiana Kronberg, Antonia Kuo, Emmanuel Lagarrigue, Fabien Lamarque, Nokukhanya Langa, Laura Larson, Nathalie Lété, Nadia Lichtig, Agnes Lux, Jean-Baptiste Maitre, Tangui Marchand, Hubert Marot, Linda Matalon, Kathy L. McGhee, Rayane Mcirdi, Adrien Menard, Danielle Michaux Samson, Anthony Miler, James Miller, Zane Miller, Joe Namy, Bettie Nin, Cécile Noguès, Nick Oberthaler, Camila Oliveira Fairclough, J. Pasila, Julie Pasila, Zoë Paul, JiaHao Peng, Richard Petry, Lia Pradal, Libby Pratt, Chloé Quenum, Shanta Rao, Renaud Regnery, Patricia Reinhart, Carlos Reyes, Samuel Richardot, Aaron Richardson, Evariste Richer, Tim Rietenbach, Marla Roddy, Clémence Roudil, George Rush, Anne Laure Sacriste, Pepo Salazar, Loup Sarion, Adrian Sauer, Amelia Saul, Amy Schuessler, Takuji Shimmura, Suzanne Silver, Julien Sirjacq, Duncan J. Snyder, Allison Somers, Jesse Stecklow, Michael Stickrod, Camille Tallent, Tarwuk, Gwenn Thomas, Jared Thorne, Agnès Thurnauer, Alicia Tréminio, Delphine Trouche, Nickolaus Typaldos, France Valliccioni, Jérôme Valton, Emmanuel Van der Meulen, Sergio Verastegui, Yonatan Vinitsky, G. William Webb, Claire Elyce Wiedman, Isobel Wohl, Ofer Wolberger, Carrie Yamaoka, Jia Jia Zhang
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