TANIA MOURAUD
DREAM
From Décember 1st 2020 to April 29th 2021
Exibition Curator : Yann Toma
Opening on 1er December 1st 2020
Sorbonne Artgallery is thrilled to host Tania Mouraud's exhibition titled DREAM, a series of writings printed on photo paper, from December 1st 2020 to April 29th 2021.
As part of the VIP itinerary at Paris Photo, the Sorbonne Artgallery presents a series of texts printed on photographic paper by Tania Mouraud, a major figure in contemporary French art. Mouraud explores social constraints and the human condition through the site-specific reactivation of her work DREAM. She interprets the phrase "I have a dream" in nine languages, thus positioning herself, by referencing Martin Luther King's 1963 speech, within the current fight against racism led by the global Black Lives Matter movement.
The title of the work borrows and updates Martin Luther King's famous phrase: "I have a dream." Through her unconventional graphic style, Tania Mouraud demonstrates that it is necessary to fight to see, in the strongest sense of the word, words that media usage has rendered invisible. By combining several languages - Hebrew, Chinese, Hindi, Arabic, Russian - with the singularity of her visual language, the artist restores the anti-racist message to its full force and effectiveness.
Matthias BARTHEL
A title that doesn't reveal the work, a fragment, a piece, that's all we have.
Dream. Like an imperative. Dream.
Tania Mouraud's Dreams are a series of forms, of lines that have become a lexicon, inviting us, unless we speak all the languages of the world, to a purely visual interpretation.
Language transformed into image questions the arbitrariness of the sign and takes us back to early childhood or travel, to a world where the illegible places us in a state of perpetual learning, overflowing with endless curiosity.
Cécile RENOULT
Since the late 1960s, Tania Mouraud's work has been rooted in a practice that explores the relationship between art and social connection, using various media: painting, installation, photography, sound, video, performance, and more. She proposed adding a meditation room to standard apartments (1968). She exhibited her disagreement with a society that glorifies possessions at the expense of humanity on 3 x 4 meter panels in public spaces (1977). She reflected on the decorative relationship between art and war, and on the limits of perception through writing, creating "words of form" (1989). From 1998 onward, she has used photography, video, and sound in close collaboration with painting to explore different aspects of history and life.
MARC LATHUILLIÈRE
CRECER, RESISTIR
From 7 octobre au 16 novembre 2020
Commissariat d'exposition : Yann Toma
Opening & conference on October 6th 2020
For this second exhibition of the academic year, Sorbonne Artgallery is honored to present the intense and poetic photographic work that the artist Marc Lathuillière brought back to us from Colombia last March, before the pandemic froze the world.
Marc Lathuillière, widely recognized for his geopolitical observations, once again immerses us in the heart of issues that, despite our distance, resonate with us and connect us directly to the core of a region of the world undergoing profound transformation. With Crecer, Resistir (“Grow, Resist”), the artist unveils a new project completed earlier this year in Urabá, a conflict zone in northern Colombia, bordering Panama. For this project, the artist spent several weeks embedded with three Afro-descendant communities engaged in peaceful resistance against armed, narco-paramilitary, and agribusiness groups. Controlling the region, monitoring physical and digital exchanges, and carrying out targeted assassinations to dispossess them of their land, these groups are in the process destroying one of the most biodiverse jungles on the planet. It is in this context that Marc Lathuillière subjected his practice to a twofold question: how to make visible a minority struggling for its environment, where preserving the lives of its members requires not showing their faces? How can this constraint influence research on portraiture as a representation of the person through their biological and cultural ties?
In a closely participatory approach with the villagers, who were seeking visibility for their struggle, five series were created: one video, the others photographic. The six “environmental portraits” exhibited at the Sorbonne are taken from one of these latter series, Cuerpos y Plantas (Body and Plants). For this series, the artist asked the farmers to be represented by a plant and a part of their body, a delegation that is both photographic and political. Each portrait is accompanied by a handwritten text on canvas, in which the individual freely expresses their fears and commitments. Forming polyptychs - a text plus one to three images - these portraits thus associate limbs or organs - hand, mouth, ear… - with trees, fruits, flowers, or even with an element, water. They thus depict an identity reshaped by globalization: fragmented, pierced by networks as much as connected to the non-human.
Marc Lathuillière thus attempts to adapt to a complex environment, one that intertwines the local and the global, a photographic approach that, since the series National Museum and Fluorescent People, has always been deeply influenced by the transformations of our societies. In Urabá, a rainforest with exceptional biology—caught between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans—is being cleared, with the indifference of the state, by the forces of the global market: barons of bananas, cattle ranching, oil palm, and coca. Facing them are some fifty communities descended from runaway slaves and indigenous people, forcibly displaced at the height of the conflict against the guerrillas, who are trying to reclaim their ancestral lands to live off non-destructive agriculture. Their strategy is local: they have declared themselves “humanitarian zones” and “biodiversity zones,” off-limits to anyone carrying weapons. But, constantly threatened, they survive only thanks to the vigilance of human rights organizations with global networks. For Marc Lathuillière, the choice of the university to offer an initial glimpse into this committed work, defending the environment and freedom of expression, is part of this approach: it is both artistic and political.
A multifaceted artist, Marc Lathuillière has been developing a deconstructed approach to documentary photography since 2004. His education—Sciences Po, EHESS—as well as his background as a reporter, have led him to long-term projects exploring the representation of contemporary societies in their relationship to time and the environment. Interventions within the photographs and their interpretation, installations, performances, and texts serve him to challenge the limits of the image. The origin of this approach lies in his main series, Musée national, in which he has photographed nearly a thousand French people wearing the same mask over the past 15 years.
His work has been featured in major exhibitions in France and abroad: Rencontres d’Arles and Fondation Iberê Camargo at FestFoto Porto Alegre (2023), FRAC Auvergne (2022), CAC Meymac (2021), Bangkok Photo and Photoszene in Cologne (2018), Creux de l’enfer in Thiers as part of the Lyon Biennale, Friche La Belle de Mai in dialogue with Marc Augé in Marseille, Paris Photo, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg and Paysages français at the BnF (2017), Gare d’Austerlitz (2015), Ithaque in four museums in La Rochelle (2012), Museum Siam in Bangkok (2011), Palais de Tokyo and French May in Hong Kong (2004).
In parallel, Marc Lathuillière develops a writing practice and regularly collaborates with authors. In 2014, he curated a double exhibition for the Mois de la Photo in Paris with Michel Houellebecq, author of the preface to his second photo book, Musée national (La Martinière). Represented by Galerie Binome (Paris), this work is included in important collections: BnF, FRAC Auvergne, Fondation Neuflize Vie, Musée français de la photographie, Centre de la photographie de Mougins, and the Vera Michalski collection.
Conférence contributors
Julien Petit, curator at MAMU (Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia), Bogotà
Yali Sequeira, coordinator
Léa Courrèges, referee of Colombie, Peace Brigades International (France)
ARIANE JOUHAUD
RIO PROJECT - PRIX AMMA 2020
From September 7th to 25th 2020
Exibition Curator : Yann Toma
Opening on September 7th 2020
Sorbonne Artgallery is thrilled to present you the art the artwork Rio Project by Ariane Jouhaud, winner of the Prix AMMA 2020 edition, showcased from September 7th to 25th 2020.
For the 4th edition of the Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Prize for Contemporary Art, students from the Master 2 Art Market program selected 12 student artists to exhibit at the Bastille Design Center.
On January 9, 2020, at a dedicated evening event, five prominent figures from the art world gathered to choose the prize winner. The jury consisted of ORLAN (contemporary artist), Touria El-Glaoui (founder of the 1-54 art fair), Yoyo Maeght (publisher, gallery owner, curator), Cécile Verdier (Director of Christie’s France), and Jean-Baptiste Costa de Beauregard (Beaux-Arts & Cie, Quotidien de l’art, organizer of Art Market Day, collector).
AMMA Sorbonne is honored to present the Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Prize for Contemporary Art to Ariane Jouhaud. The artist Margaret Millet won the People's Choice Award.
This year, exceptionally, Mr. Perrotin, Ms. Verdier, and Ms. El-Glaoui generously decided to quadruple the prize awarded to our winner, each adding 500 euros. She therefore received 2,000 euros as well as the promise of an exhibition at the Sorbonne Art Gallery.
On Sunday, September 2, 2018, a devastating fire broke out at the National Museum of Rio. The day after the fire, the world was shocked by the terrible images of the disaster: almost the entire collection had gone up in smoke that night. This event coincided with my arrival at the National School of Decorative Arts, where I met Isabella Aurora, a student from the University of Rio participating in an exchange program with France. Our collaboration on the questions raised by the destruction of the museum and its precious collections became clear: a series of artistic experiments began. Together, we tried to give back to an imaginary body what had been destroyed. Thus, by assembling natural and chemical elements, we attempted to find a balance between form and matter, between memory and imagination, in order to metaphorically recreate what had disappeared.
Ariane Jouhaud
Ariane Jouhaud ...
Prix AMMA 2019 - Dayoung Jehong - Avatar, sponsored by gallery owner Nathalie Seroussi.
Prix AMMA 2018 - Alessia Sanna - Screen City, sponsored by Antoine de Galbert.
Prix AMMA 2017 - Lenny Rébéré - Exhibit, sponsored by gallery owners Chantal Crousel and Thaddaeus Ropac.
Special thanks to the artists, the jury members - ORLAN, Touria El-Glaoui, Yoyo Maegh, Cécile Verdier et Jean-Baptiste Costa de Beauregard -, à Monsieur Perrotin, à Yann Toma et à l’Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne without whom this entire adventure would not have been possible. Members of the association: Charlotte Scetbon, Anne-Lise Lacorte, Marie Cochennec-Sapin, Ambre Fioc, Clémentine Olchanski, Adam Inegmirs, Gabrielle Lambert, Léo Fontaine, Cassandre Benoit, Laura Galliano, Victor Tesch, Claire Ribière.
DAYOUNG JEONG - Lauréat du Prix AMMA
AVATARS
From February 10th to March 6th 2020
Exibition Curator : Yann Toma
Opening on February 10th 2020
Sorbonne Artgallery is thrilled to present you the exhibition AVATARS by Dayoung Jeong - Winner of the Prix AMMA, from February 10th to March 6th 2020.
The Avatar project consists of a series of photographs in which two appearances are juxtaposed. Two individuals pose in front of a mirror reflecting a desired image. One photograph, two people, or rather, one person and their avatar. One has the appearance of an "ordinary," everyday person. The other projects an original, unusual appearance, exaggeratedly adorned and made up, resembling an avatar. Dayoung's stagings allow people, like virtual beings, to change gender, social status, profession, and character. They can experience situations, behaviors, and responsibilities inaccessible if it weren't for their avatar. Through this reflection, they choose what they want to show of their personality and character, without revealing themselves entirely. The avatar is a reflection of the personality and traits the person would have liked to have in the real world. It is not only the gaze of others that prevents people from fully expressing their "self," but also natural, anatomical, physical, or biological obstacles.
To disguise her characters, Dayoung Jeong uses various materials - wrapping paper, ribbon, cardboard boxes, fabric, beads - reflecting a social image, concealing the individual, "wrapping" their appearance away from the gaze of others. The world of avatars allows the user to experience, occasionally and partially, the life that attracts them, out of curiosity, without any systematic reason. This virtual world does not replace the space of the real world, but constitutes a new space that complements and expands it.
The visibility afforded by this event stems primarily from the exceptional jury of the 2019 prize, tasked with selecting the winner. The jury, chaired by Philippe Dagen, art historian and critic, included Yann Toma, curator of the Sorbonne Artgallery; the Premier Regard association; Alessia Sanna, winner of the 2018 prize; Nathalie Seroussi, Parisian gallery owner; Lou Ros, contemporary artist; Elsa Gody Baubau, auctioneer, expert for the television program "Un trésor dans votre maison" (A Treasure in Your Home) and sales representative at Catawiki; Sydney Chiche-Attali, alumnus of the Master 2 Art Market program and lawyer at the firm Pierrat & De Seze; and Clémentine Joubeaux, a Master 2 Marché de l’art alumni.
Bureau AMMA 2019 | 2020 : Charlotte SCETBON, President ; Anne-Lise LACORTE, Vice-Presiden ; Anaël DURAND, treasurer ; Marie COCHENNEC-SAPIN, Director of the events department (in charge of organizing the prize and the graduation ceremony) ; Ambre FIOC, General Secretary ; Clémentine OLCHANSKI, Communication and social media management department ; Adam INEGMIRS, Deputy Treasurer ; Gabrielle LAMBERT, Deputy Treasurer ; Léo FONTAINE, Deputy General Secretary ; Cassandre BENOIT, Deputy Events Department (Graduation Ceremony) ; Laura GALLIANO, Deputy Events Department (Prize) ; Victor TESCH, Communication and website management department; Claire RIBIÈRE, Communication and social media management department.
Dayoung Jeong is a young artist of Korean origin (born in 1988) who has been living in Paris since 2011 to pursue her artistic studies, which she began in Seoul. This visual artist's work has already garnered institutional recognition, having participated in several group exhibitions in Paris, Seoul, and Berlin. The Korean Cultural Center in Paris dedicated a solo exhibition to her in 2015 as part of its "Spotlight on Promising Korean Artists" series.
IREST 2020 AWARD
TOURISM AND MIGRATION
January 24 to February 7, 2020
Juliette PAVY / Hardam SAPUTRO / Clément COUVAL / Adrien NOWAK / Antoine BIRON Mohamadou SECK / Joseph MELIN / Gildas DE LA MONNERAYE / Nicholas SIMENON
Sorbonne Artgallery is pleased to present the winners of the IREST 2020 Prize on view from January 24 to February 7, 2020.
IREST
The Institut de Recherche et d'Études Supérieures du Tourisme (IREST) was founded in 1989. It is a multi-disciplinary institute attached to the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, offering a wide range of professional bachelor's and master's degrees in tourism development, heritage enhancement, hotel management and international tourism in Paris and abroad. Research activities are organized within the EIREST (Equipe Interdisciplinaire de REcherches Sur le Tourisme), which comprises geographers, economists, lawyers, historians, art historians and sociologists working on tourism in an interdisciplinary approach. IREST coordinates the activities of the UNESCO Chair in "Culture, Tourism and Development" and the UNITWIN UNESCO international network of universities on five continents.
IREST Prize
With over 2,700,000 photos posted on social networks every 20 minutes, photography is more than ever the universal language of contemporary society. Since the digital revolution, photography has certainly been the most immediate and popular medium for conveying emotions and a vision of the world. Practically since its invention, photography has also been one of the main activities of travelers and tourists around the world. That's why IREST is keen to encourage photographers to share their work, which bears witness to the transformations in the tourism sector and the issues and conflicts it raises.
Competition theme: Tourism and migration
In 2018, tourism enabled 1.4 billion people to travel the world and discover others. Migration, for its part, is one of the most important socio-economic and geopolitical issues of our time. They are the source of new itineraries, but also of new human adventures, sometimes tragic, as well as encounters, the consequences of which can only be fully understood in the future. At IREST, we felt it was important not only to contribute to documenting our times, but also to ask photographers how they might view these routes, their possible cross-fertilizations and the issues at stake.
Jury: Dimitri BECK (Director of Photography, POLKA), Jean-Philippe CARRIE (Head of Communications, IREST), Francesca COMINELLI (MCF, Director of IREST), Diane GRIMONET (photographer), Michel Tiard (President, AIDA-IREST), Yann TOMA (Professor and artist, Director of Sorbonne ArtGallery).
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