(text by Vincent Verlé Commissioner exposure)
The pace of modern art is punctuated by exhibits. Each week, hundreds of exhibitions that open worldwide. Each show deals with an issue, a theme set by the artist, by the Commissioner.
Soon a new show!
no exception to this unwritten rule, except that it is the place that defined the topic, not the artist or the commissioner. When David and Alexandra
Usunier Sophie told me of their residential project at Our House, I was immediately seduced by this idea. My job as curator at the Art Center of Grenoble Bastille led me to question the importance of public space in the definition in art.
From the outset, the CAB has placed the action of mediation in the heart of his work. That does not mean to say that my efforts to CAB is located in the field of socio-cultural action. Quite the contrary, the CAB is located in the field of contemporary art, the exploration of issues through art today.
My work with David and Alexandra Sophie Usunier is in line with what I have undertaken several years because it is not to offer exposure to an audience, but to bring contemporary art at the heart of an audience, the occupants
Our House.
Being in residence in a retirement home, not do animation is to listen, feel and express. Express a view on an important issue in our society, the question of old age. In this infernal race time that passes, the issue of age has been eclipsed by that of
youth, youth culture show. Today, we must be young, beautiful, active to be seductive, attractive. We practice excessive sport, cosmetic surgery does not appear outdated, not to appear older. Old age has become the ultimate evil, synonymous with decadence, degradation, end, death. Now old age is not it. It is part of our process
life is inevitable. Yet we continue to discard, to repel. We forget that the organization of our societies have always been based on the place left in our "old". It is they who have the experience and wisdom to guide us. But perhaps today we have forgotten this wisdom in our madness. Ultimately, the fate that we reserve for our old today is the fate that we reserve for our fears. Fear of death, fear of deprivation, fear of madness. The exhibition designed
What Alexandra David and Sophie Usunier talking about that. This is not work on
Our house is a work on the vision of old age Our House. An uncompromising work that looks instead of old age in our society.
Vincent Verlé is curator and head of government at the Centre d'Art Bastille.
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