Project
With DROP FURNITURE (Mobilier de dépôt), Mathieu Tremblin develops an unprecedented proposal that continues his research on the signs and traces of urbanity resulting from anonymous, autonomous, and spontaneous practices and expressions in public space, which he engages in a process of translation by visual, semantic, and plastic means in order to reveal and shift their uses.
With this in mind, students are introduced to an alternative form of exhibition, in the sense that the display format chosen here does not borrow the codes of the gallery or the traditional exhibition space.
Indeed, in response to IESA Lyon’s invitation to take over the Factatory studio and its surrounding area, Mathieu Tremblin designed, with the assistance of IESA Lyon students, an urban exhibition device through the production and temporary installation of a set of metal structures whose apparent abstraction maintains a close relationship with pieces of urban furniture that borrow their aesthetics from the normative elements of public space organization. These Drop Furnitures thus divert standard forms and functions into functional sculptures as incongruous as they are paradoxically compatible with the city’s ecosystem. Placed in carefully chosen spots so that they can blend in with ordinary artifacts of the urban landscape, these structures reveal themselves to viewers through the contrast invited by the strangeness of their situations, as so many messages addressed to passersby.
To share the ins and outs of this project, IESA Lyon and the Tator gallery invite the public to a presentation session on Saturday, April 2, 2016 from 14:00 to 19:00 at the Factatory and in the city, and more specifically from 15:00 for the presentation of the sculptures and interstitial gestures, during "guided visits" led by the artist and the students.
Objectives
As part of the introductory teaching on curatorial practices in contemporary art developed by IESA Lyon since 2015, aimed at 2nd-year students of the Bachelor in Artistic and Cultural Project Organization, and led by Mickaël Roy, curator and art critic, artist Mathieu Tremblin was invited for a residency / workshop from March 1 to April 1 at the Factatory, artist studios developed by the Tator gallery. In this context, he proposes DROP FURNITURE (Mobilier de dépôt), a set of sculptural interventions and a few other artistic gestures in the public space of Lyon’s 7th arrondissement.
On this occasion, and throughout the working meetings, students were invited to learn the issues involved in supporting the conception and realization of a contemporary artistic creation, becoming familiar with the theoretical and practical aspects of an exhibition project conceived in a broad sense. As such, students actively contributed to the production of the project by taking on stage management, administration, communications and public relations, mediation, and documentation tasks.
Students
Fiona Azemat, Solène Begneu, Cécile Berthelot, Clémentine Chastanier, Julien Costantin, Joris Creuze, Sabrina Dumur, Adeline Fievet, Luen Manoa, Rosa Mellino, Thibaud Picard, Emma Rocton, Laetitia Thyssen, Marie Weinsberg, Zhizhuo Yang - Bachelor in Artistic and Cultural Project Management