Our former student, Marie Adélaïde Beau, from the Bachelor in Cultural Communication presents her end-of-year project: EXPO SHOWCASE xo[BEAT]box.
500 m2 built around the concept xo[BEAT]box, the painting-and-music production box, in a disused former printing house, L’Endroit, run by the hip-hop collective Good Dirty Sound, a partner of the event. The EXPO SHOWCASE xo[BEAT]box is the first solo exhibition of Egzo, an upcycling artist and beatmaker whom I met two years earlier at 59 Rivoli, an artist collective in the heart of Paris, and with whom I have been collaborating ever since. Upcycling elements is a structuring axis of our identity and artistic approach. The whole exhibition and the concept itself is a reflection on artistic and musical aspects as much as digital and ecological ones.
The decorative ensemble arranged by the set designer is conceived as an essential agent of unification between nature and street culture: only scraps and offcuts of materials are used to dress the space. The program includes 3 days of exhibition accompanied by 2 unique evenings. At the opening and closing events, several performances are staged: MCs, DJs, hip-hop dancers, and other surprises blend with the exhibition of the works. Alongside me are Parisian companies and associations that share my ambition to contribute to sustainable lifestyles and cultural influence.