Exhibition with Minia Biabiany, Gaëlle Choisne, Elise Courcol-Rozès, Julien Creuzet, Alice Didier Champagne, Kenny Dunkan, Rémi Duprat, Marco Godoy, Hugo Livet, Julie Luzoir, Paul Maheke, Basir Mahmood, Nefeli Papadimouli, Sandrine & David, Giuditta Vendrame, Yao Qingmei
Grands Voisins
Paris, France
2017
The trembling thinking arises from everywhere […] It preserves us from system thoughts and thought systems. It does not imply fear or resolve, it stretches infinitely like an innumerable bird, its wings strewn with the black salt of the earth. It brings us together in absolute diversity, in a whirlwind of encounters. Utopia that never settles and that opens tomorrow, like a shared sun and fruit.
Édouard Glissant, La Cohée du Lamentin. Poetics V, Gallimard, 2005.
Taking Edouard Glissant's thinking as a starting point, Diametre wanted to think about a possible tomorrow. Against ideologies and systems, the philosopher and poet opposes an archipelagic thought, based on discovery, interference and creative disorder. Against any form of standardization or assimilation, the Glissantian relationship model produces unstable hybrid situations yet deeply fertile.
It is in this chaos of « Tout-Monde » (Whole World) that the project takes place; a world which would no longer be governed by great hegemonic movements but by successive tremblings on the scale of a territory, the end of globalizing utopias in favor of open and changing utopias. "Act in your place, think with the world", as the maxim of the Creole thinker says.
Designed for Les Grands Voisins’s space between two islands - that are the Jeune Création and Ensapc Ygrec galleries - the exhibition aims to reflect a generation of artists for whom identity is necessarily transitory and bodies must be diasporic. As fluid as the water that composes us, "the thought of trembling" is an exhibition where the picture rails move and undulate, where the works play with precarious balances, sometimes suspended in the air like specific affected objects.
Hijacking the tropical tropes or reinventing a collective language, a polyphonic universe is offered, accompanied by a reading space where words come to mix with the flesh.