Arcanes Rituels et Chimères
group exhibition
To commemorate the centenary of the famous Surrealist Manifesto, FRAC Corsica presents a collective exhibition exploring the current relevance of an irrational artistic approach. Highlighting works primarily from the emerging scene, this exhibition is conceived as a journey through a space not solely mapped by consciousness.
Sottu à l'egida di a figura storica di Leonora Carrington, prisentata quì cum’è a so cuntempuranea, l’artisti invitati ricorrenu à pratiche è simbuli mistichi per turnà à incantà un mondu prigiuneru di un ideale mudernu di chjarezza è di cuntrollu assulutu.
Under the aegis of the historical figure Leonora Carrington, presented here as a contemporary, the invited artists invoke mystical practices and symbols to re-enchant a world imprisoned in a modern ideal of clarity and absolute control.
In contrast to this still-dominant movement, each work acts as an intermediary to alternative realities, poetic and occult escape routes.
Arcanes, rituals and Chimeras is intended as an ode to esotericism, as well as to the mysterious forces that express the element of indeterminacy still active today. The creations presented are the riddles of the Sphinx, knowing that the answers to the questions posed by our existence can never be fully direct: contrary to what consciousness suggests, each thing withdraws from the world of evidence the moment it is grasped by our mind. Art thus becomes a tool to deconstruct certainties and offer a map of the unexplored. In this logic, this exhibition asserts the potential for material reinvention present in this sanctuary of the imagination that remains creation. It is then a matter of following the secret intuition of Leonora Carrington who affirmed that “we are all doors, passages to the invisible.”
Curated by: Fabien Danesi
MATHILDE ALBOUY, NILS ALIX-TABELING, RUBA AL-SWEEL, KEVIN BRAY, MADISON BYCROFT, LEONORA CARRINGTON, DOMINIQUE DEGLI ESPOSTI, JUSTIN FITZPATRICK, MICHELE GABRIELE, ANTOINE GIACOMONI, CECILIA GRANARA, SHUO HAO, WILMA HARJU, YOURI JOHNSON, KRIS LEMSALU, ISAAC LYTHGOE, ALEXANDRA METCALF, JI-MIN PARK, ROJDA YAVUZ.
Photographies : Léa Eouzan Pieri.