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Exhibitions

05 October - 22 December 2019

Reinventing Calais

Works from the Centre national des arts plastiques, by Lotfi Benyelles, Claire Chevrier, Jean Larive, Elisa Larvego, Laurent Malone, André Mérian, Gilles Raynaldy and Aimée Thirion

The CPIF hosts an exhibition of works from the Fonds National d’Art Contemporain collection, commissioned as part of “Réinventer Calais”* (Reinventing Calais).

Curators : Pascal Beausse and Nathalie Giraudeau

 

This commission is part of the ongoing commitment of an association, Pôle d’Exploration des Ressources Urbaines (PEROU), because: “It involves paying attention to how we collectively see Calais, because it involves looking beyond what seems obvious to so many and finally telling the story of a town/world crushed under the weight of a form of base iconography that only shows the very worst, because it involves making way at last for this “invisible town”, a town made up of buildings, dreams, human relationships and businesses of all sorts, all of which contribute to making a place what it really is and finally because it involves making public a different political interpretation and realising, at last, that the New Jungle in Calais is a “tiers paysage” (third landscape).” (Sébastien Thiéry, PEROU coordinator)

 

Public opening : Saturday, October, 12 - 3 PM
Opening of the exhibition with the artists and curators
Free shuttle from Paris, by reservation

Public talk : Saturday, November, 23 - 3 PM
Panel discussion with the artists and curators
Free shuttle from Paris, by reservation

 

*Works commissioned by the Centre National des Arts Plastiques in collaboration with PEROU and in partnership with the Fondation de France and the PUCA.

Photo credit : Elisa Larvego, Zara devant la porte de la Belgium kitchen, zone nord de la jungle de Calais, 2016, FNAC 2017-0053 (8), réalisée dans le cadre d’une commande publique photographique du Centre national des arts plastiques (Cnap) et du Pôle d’Exploration des Ressources Urbaines (PEROU) intitulée « Réinventer Calais » en 2016, Cnap © Elisa Lavergo / Cnap

 

The exhibition is part of The Engagement, a national event organised by Diagonal network, in partnership with Centre national des arts plastiques, supported by the French Ministry of Culture and ADAGP, in the frame of Diagonal’s tenth birthday.
 

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