Galerie expérimentale 2019

- Antinymphe -

The Galerie Expérimentale is a training program offered by the Department of Art History of the University of Tours and the Olivier Debré Contemporary Art Center (CCC OD).

The objective is to propose to students in third year of Art History to confront themselves with curatorial practices by organizing a contemporary art exhibition. It is an alternative course where 10 students were selected on file. I thus had the opportunity to participate.

This exhibition is also part of the event Viva Leonardo Da Vinci 2019 - 500 years of RenaissanceS in the Centre-Val de Loire region.

For this year's theme, our research focus is on the animation of bodies and empathy in Renaissance works, such as Sandro Botticelli's The Spring or The Birth of Venus, which Aby Warburg, an art historian, commented on. He noted the use of clothing, drapery, and wind to simulate this antique animation in the viewer's eye.

Our exhibition, Antinymphe, is composed of ultra-contemporary works that will question this movement, this animation through the figure of the nymph, using textiles, materials and dance as revelators of this force invisible to the naked eye, by proposing a nymph that takes the opposite view of the model, by inscribing it in its contemporaneity.

The exhibited works are :

Éléonore False, Bow Down, 2016, inkjet print, printed wall, 150 x 256 cm.
Ingrid Luche, Grande robe de l'ange de mer ocellé, 2011, mixed media on fabric / rack: metal, paint, 160 x 60 x 40 cm / rack 173 x 30 cm.
Ingrid Luche, Blue moon (Bleu de travail), 2011, denim canvas, ink and ballpoint pen on iron-on fabric, metal, 180 x 20 x 25 cm.
Lili Reynaud-Dewar, TEETH GUMS MACHINE FUTURE SOCIETY (Museion), 2017, HD video, color, 16/9, 6'4".
Myriam Mihindou, La Robe envolée, 2008, video, 20'37".
Rieko Koga, Décalage Horaire, 2012, cotton, linen threads, hand embroidery, 61 x 46 cm.

The 2019 exhibition took place from June 6 to June 16, 2019 in the Black Auditorium at CCC OD in Tours. You can consult our intention notice by clicking on the button below (French Only):

Intention notice (French)