Le bruit de la chair. Partition pour gina pane
Group Exhibition
Frac Pays de la Loire, Nantes & Carquefou, France
From December 1st, 2023 to March 3rd, 2024
Artists: Patricia Allio & H. Alix Sanyas, Ohan Breiding, Jota Mombaça, Jeneen Frei Njootli, gina pane, Julia Phillips
gina pane, "Situation idéale : Terre-Artiste-Ciel. 1969", Écos (Eure), 1969. Photo by Stéphane Bellanger.
«WHERE IS THE FIRE THAT RESONATES? THE NOISE OF THE FLESH? THE SOUND OF LAUGHTER? OF PAIN? OF DEATH? THE SILENCE OF BLOOD?»
gina pane, 1974
In 1968, while walking in the Orco valley near Turin (Italy), where she grew up, gina pane came across a small pile of north-facing stones. She decided to take the stones one by one and place them in a dry, open spot. This encounter with a mineral element, and the simple action that followed, may seem insignificant, but they marked a decisive turning point in the artist’s career. With this minimal gesture of reparation and reverence for the earth, gina pane laid the foundations to an unprecedented interdisciplinary practice. The result was an eco-critical body language and a radical aesthetic based on reciprocity and communion with the other.
Le bruit de la chair. Partition pour gina pane brings together bodies and their environment. Echoing to gina pane’s gesture of ecology and solidarity, the resident artists of the thirty-fourth edition of International Workshops use the body as a site of junction, of social and environmental transformation. From the body-landscape to the body-cosmos, from the wounded body to the invisibilized body, the experience of the living and its limits becomes a medium and an alternative research tool.
From the Ile de Nantes to Carquefou, the exhibition is a poetic and political journey through matter, where other ecological stories and gestures are unfolding. Historic works by gina pane (from the Frac collection and elsewhere) enter into dialogue with recent creations by contemporary artists, including four new commissioned pieces, created by residents Jeneen Frei Njootli, Jota Mombaça, Ohan Breiding, H. Alix Sanyas and Patricia Allio.
Frac website
Press article in Ouest France
Installation views: Fanny Trichet
