Uprisings (Soulèvements)
Group show
Artists : Anonymous, Anonymous Member of Sonderkommando D’auschwitz-Birkenau, Paul Abreu, Dennis Adams, Magdeleine Arbour, Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, Art & Language, Antonin Artaud, Ever Astudillo Delgado, Hugo Aveta, Ismaïl Bahri, Marcel Barbeau, Artur Barrio, Georges Bataille, Taysir Batniji, Charles Baudelaire, Rebecca Belmore, Francisca Benitez, Ruth Berlau, Dominique Blain, Paul-Émile Borduas, Bruno Boudjelal, Désiré-Magloire Bourneville, Shary Boyle, André Breton, Marcel Broodthaers, Maurice Bulbulian, Gilles Caron, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Augustín Victor Casasola, Cornélius Castoriadis, Claude Cattelain, Agustí Centelles, Alain Chagnon, Champfleury, Chieh-Jen Chen, Pascal Convert, Bruno Cormier, Gustave Courbet, Honoré Daumier, Armand Dayot, Guy Debord, Marcel Duchamp, Carl Einstein, Élie Faure, Marcelle Ferron-Hamelin , Michel Foucault, Leonard Freed, Gisèle Freund, Michel Gauthier, Marcel Gautherot, Claude Gauvreau, Pierre Gauvreau, Agnès Geoffray, Jochen Gerz, Eduardo Gil, Stéphane Gilot, Jack Goldstein, Muriel Guilbault, Raymond Hains, Ken Hamblin, Raoul Hausmann, Arpad Hazafi, Bernard Heidsieck, Alleg Henri, Jerónimo Hernández, William Hogarth, Alvaro Hoppe, Victor Hugo, Richard Ibghy, Mat Jacob, Mario Jean, Asger Jorn, Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, Tsubasa Kato, Dmitri Kessel, Herbert Kirchhoff, Alberto Korda, Eustachy Kossakowski, Maria Kourkouta, Germaine Krull, Hiroji Kubota, Suzy Lake, Michèle Lalonde, Fernand Leduc, Thérèse Leduc, Marilou Lemmens, Jérôme Lindon, Héctor López, Germán Marin, Eduardo Menz, Jasmina Metwaly, Henri Michaux, Tina Modotti, Ernesto Molina, Robert Morris, Pedro Motta, Jean-Luc Moulène, Jean-Paul Mousseau, Jacques Nadeau, Friedrich Nietzsche, Voula Papaioannou, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza, Maurice Perron, Jean-Marc Piotte, Édouard Plante-Fréchette, Enrique Ramírez, Jacques Rancière, Man Ray, Louise Renaud, Réseau Buckmaster, Hans Richter, Françoise Riopelle, Jean Paul Riopelle, Willy Römer, Pedro G. Romero, Willy Ronis, Jesús Ruiz Durand, Blaire Russell, Graciela Sacco, Armando Salgado, Álvaro Sarmiento, Allan Sekula, David Seymour, Mina Shum, Peter Sibbald, Roman Signer, Lorna Simpson, Michael Snow, Philippe Soupault, Françoise Sullivan, Gabor Szilasi, Paul-Henri Talbot, Charles Toubin, Fina Torres, Étienne Tremblay-Tardif, Félix Vallotton, Andrew Vaughan, Jean Veber, Wolf Vostell, Joyce Wieland, Malcolme Wilde Browne, Gil Joseph Wolman
Curator : Georges Didi-Huberman
Jeu de Paume / Paris
October 18, 2016 - January 15, 2017
Catalogue
ISBN : 978-2-07-019-683-8
Gallimard
2016
Uprisings is a trans-disciplinary exhibition on the theme of human gestures that raise up the world or rise up against it: collective or individual gestures, actions or passions, works or thoughts. They are gestures which say no to a state of history that is considered too “heavy” and that therefore needs to be “lifted” or even sent packing. They are also gestures that say yes to something else: to a desired better world, an imagined or adumbrated world, a world that could be inhabited and conceived differently.
These figures of uprising and up-raising will range freely across mediums: paintings, drawings, prints, video installations, photographs, fiction films, documentary images, writers’ manuscripts, tracts, posters, etc., without hierarchies. The exhibition sequence will follow a sensitive, intuitive path along which the gaze can focus on exemplary “cases” treated with a precision that prevents any kind of generalisation. We will be mindful not to conclude, not to dogmatically foreclose anything. The sequence will comprise five main parts: elements, gestures, words, conflicts, desires.
WORDS (EXCLAIMED)
Poetic insurrections. — The message of the butterflies. — Newspapers. — Making a book of resistance. — The walls speak up.
Arms have been raised, mouths have exclaimed. Now, what are needed are words, sentences to say, sing, think, discuss, print, transmit. That is why poets place themselves “at the forefront” of the action itself, as Rimbaud said at the time of the Paris Commune. Upstream the Romantics, downstream the Dadaists, Surrealists, Lettrists, Situationists, etc., all undertook poetic insurrections. “Poetic” does not mean “far from history,” quite the contrary. There is a poetry of tracts, from the protest leaflet written by Georg Büchner in 1834 to the digital resistance of today, through René Char in 1943 and the “cine-tracts,” from 1968. There is a poetry particular to the use of newspapers and social networks. There is a particular intelligence—attentive to the form—inherent in the books of resistance or of uprising. Until the walls themselves begin to speak and occupy the public space, the sensible space in its entirety.
Antonin Artaud, Ever Astudillo, Ismaïl Bahri, Artur Barrio, Georges Bataille, Charles Baudelaire, Joseph Beuys, Enrique Bostelmann, André Breton, Marcel Broodthaers, Cornelius Castoriadis, Champfleury, Dada, Armand Dayot, Guy Debord, Carl Einstein, Jean-Luc Fromanger, Federico García Lorca, Jean-Luc Godard, Groupe Dziga Vertov, Raymond Hains, Raoul Hausmann, John Heartfield, Bernard Heidsieck, Victor Hugo, Asger Jorn, Jérôme Lindon, Rosa Luxemburg, Man Ray, Germán Marín, Chris Marker, Cildo Meireles, Henri Michaux, Tina Modotti, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Pablo Picasso, Sigmar Polke, Jacques Rancière, Alain Resnais, Armando Salgado, Álvaro Sarmiento, Philippe Soupault, Félix Vallotton, Gil Joseph Wolman, German, Chilean, Cuban, Spanish, French, Italian, Mexican, Russian unknowns.
