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Some works seem to be telling us a lot about the world in which we live, about this current period, without explicitly indicating specific events that we could no doubt relate to.
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What Is Not Visible Is Not Invisible
What is Not Visible is Not Invisible broadly surveys the imaginary and the temporary through selected artworks from the French regional collections of contemporary art (FRAC). The title and design of this exhibition take inspiration from the artwork of the same title by Julien Discrit.
Read moreThe film installation at the heart of the exhibition conceived by Mark Geffriaud for le plateau explores our relationship to time. The film consists of footage of two different locations, namely, the construction site of the largest telescope in the world in the Atacama Desert, Chile, and the shores of Lake Titicaca, between Peru and Bolivia, where large building stones were abandoned more than a thousand years ago.
Read moreThe Frac Île-de-France and the Communauté d’agglomération de Marne et Gondoire host the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature at the Château de Rentilly, as well as in the Trophy Room, inviting the artist Richard Fauguet to curate the exhibition based on the Museum collections.
Read moreSince 1994, each new exhibition of Michel François’s work has been the occasion for the production of a large poster (120×180 cm) taken from one of his photographs. Printed in large runs, these posters, which are usually just simply piled in a stack on the exhibition space floor, are offered to the public. The frac île-de-france is showing a project based exclusively on this series, which it has recently acquired.
Read moreDominique Ghesquière is the new artist-in-residency at the Parc culturel in Rentilly. Her project was selected unanimously by a jury comprising representatives of the Parc culturel and the frac île-de-france, and will be implemented between January and June 2016. It will include a solo exhibition in the Trophy Room of the Parc culturel in March and a presentation of the artist’s on-site production at the end of the residency.
Read moreLe Centre Photographique d’Île-de-France, la Ferme du Buisson and le frac île-de-france/le château present SoixanteDixSept.
Read moreThe Protagonists is a collection of translations and newly commissioned texts edited by François Aubart in parallel with two projects: the lecture cycle Laissez-vous séduire par le sex appeal de l’inorganique, from September 26, 2015 to February 25, 2016, at Passerelle—Centre d’art contemporain in Brest; and the exhibition De toi à la surface, from January 21 to April 10, 2016, at le plateau – frac île-de-france, in Paris.
Read moreOpenning on Wednesday 6 July, from 7 to 9 pm.
Read moreA group of people being housed at the Centre was set up in order to plan an exhibition, John Frum, from a selection of works featuring in the thematic programme “Jeux de Langage”, initiated by the Frac Île-de France public service department.
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