MY ONE OBJECT OF RESENTMENT – Evolving Exhibition
IESA - Beaux-arts de Paris Partnership
An evolving exhibition with
Tassiana AIT TAHAR · Ugo CASUBOLO-FERRO · Seeta CHIANG · Ruoxi JIN - Adrien LAGRANGE · Hanna LEE · Jin Yong LIAN · Jade MAIGNAN · Iman MALIK · Parisa MOUSAVI · ka RYU · Nassim SARNI
From May 22 to 26, 2024, IESA Gallery (1 Cité Griset, 75011 Paris)
Opening on May 21 from 18:00 to 21:00.
Sole Object of My Resentment is the result of a collaboration between the IESA arts&culture Master Exhibition Curating and the Guillaume Paris studio of the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris.
Conceived in motion on the model of a play, the project explores what binds the artist, their work, and contemporary society. Its title, taken from Corneille’s words in Horace, embodies the ambiguous, sometimes conflicted relationship between the artist and their output. Divided into three symbolic acts, Sole Object of My Resentment looks at the many stakes of the act of creating under the demands of the market and its institutions: Adrien Lagrange, Iman Malik.
In the first act Living with Art, visitors are invited to encounter the works through their plasticity and essence. The artists Ruoxi Jin, Ugo Casubolo Ferro, and Hana Lee unveil a vision of art that initiates a poetic and sensory relationship with audiences.
The second act Living off Art addresses the complex reality of producing and positioning oneself in the cultural economy. Tassiana Aït Tahar and Nassim Sarni raise the essential questions of a work’s value and the dynamics that define it, notably when a creation is converted into a commercial object.
Finally, Living One’s Art, the last act, summons the physical bond the artist maintains with their practice. This approach tells of the essential relationship between the work and the artist, but also with the viewer, who must move through the undefined space in order to fully perceive the piece. The work thus becomes an invitation to active interaction, demanding physical and psychic immersion from the viewer.
"(…) The main characteristic of performance is that once it is over, there is nothing left to quantify. The witness is forced to examine their own impressions and therefore their own psyche instead of being able to claim formal objectivity" Scott Burton.
It is thus through their performances, the artist’s total and embodied commitment, that Jade Maignan, Parisa Mousavi, and Chiang Seeta explore the porous boundaries between the self and the work.
Each moment of the exhibition is a pretext for the artists to present how they work with their various zones of tension: creation embodies this fertile source of inspiration, revealing the tragic passions that drive young creation, and the works crystallize artistic affects to become, for a moment, the unique objects of a resentment.
Curated by: Marius AMORETTI, Dalia BAHBOU, Léonie CHARON-TURPIN, Anna FOSSI, Amandine GRONDIN,
Juliette GUILLEMOT, Célia HOUBERDON, Laure LINNÉ, Florie MARCHAIS, Angie MARTIAL, Lia MEHEUST,
Chiara MENTORE, Quentin MINOT, Sarah MONCADA, Valentin NGUYEN, Grace RABET, Valentin RABILLER,
Capucine RAMBEAU, Francesca ROZZI, Nine VAN DER LINDE, Xiaofei ZHI, Mélanie ZOUGHEIB. Under the direction of Agnès VIOLEAU.
