TRANS(¿)DUCTION : MOTHER TONGUE, MIGRATION, CULTURAL CROSS-ROAD, MOTION AND DÉSOBÉISSANCE PAR ANNE-MARIE MELSTER ET MARC JOHNSON

Avec : Dimitri Afanasenko, Louise Babari, André Baldinger, Lise-Laure Batifol, Subhankar Banerjee, Saloua Luste Boulbina, Maxime Chanson, Merce Cunningham, Benjamin Guetta, Alice Delmotte-Halter, Claude Iverné, Sarah Agnès James, Marc Johnson, Anne-Marie Melster, Pascal Obolo, Jean Marie Privat, Toan Vu-Huu et Katarina Zdjelar

L'exposition trans(¿)duction explore quelques relations entre la traduction, les langues maternelles, la migration, les sciences sociales, la danse, la présentation de document comme forme de recherche, les questions identitaires, les images en mouvement, la typographie et les formes de désobéissances.

L'exposition trans(¿)duction tente de mettre en relation deux modes exploratoires. Tout d'abord est mis en oeuvre une visée scientifique, une activité de recherche dont l'objet est l'approfondissement des connaissances dans les domaines des sciences sociales et des arts visuels. Mais aussi une exploration sensible de l'âme humaine, qui privilégie l'expression de la subjectivité et met en valeur les ressources du rythme, du contrepoint et des mécanismes psychiques pour constituer une exposition-forum, tout à la fois, un dispositif spatial et une construction mentale.

trans(¿)duction abolit les frontières traditionnelles entre les différentes formes d'art – arts plastiques, cinémas, danses, littératures, mathématique, musiques, théâtres et poésies. Ce projet construit dans le réel un territoire, des interactions entre les disciplines.

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Anne-Marie Melster is a curator, art writer, academic and consultant for art/environment/education. She is a guest lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts (Polytechnic University of Valencia), the University of Hamburg and the Universidad Veritas in San José, Costa Rica and is collaborating with the Ringling College of Art + Design, Sarasota (Florida). She consults for international collectors, galleries, artists. She contributes to the art magazines exibart (Italy), Miami Art Guide, Weltkunst (Germany), artspace.com (New York City) among others.

Anne-Marie Melster was the personal and artistic assistant of Reinhold Würth, one of Europe's most important collectors and art patrons. In 2005 she co-founded ARTPORT making waves, a curatorial practice now based in New York, Spain and Paris. ARTPORTmaking waves raises awareness and promotes the public discourse about climate change through exhibitions, residency programs, and collaborations linking the arts, science, and politics.

Marc Johnson is a Franco-Beninese architect, visual artist and film-maker who has studied at the École Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris from 2006 to 2011 (MFA). He studied at the Hunter College of Art, New York (2010). He continued his studies from 2011-2013 at the National School of Architecture Paris-Malaquais (MArch). In 2007, he was guest artist of the A.R.T. Artists-in-Residence programme in Tokyo.

Marc Johnson has received many grants and awards for his work as an artist, including the LVMH Young Artist Award (2009), the Clermont-Tonnerre Prize from the Association des Amis des Beaux-Arts de Paris (2009), the Colin-Lefranc grants from the French ministry of culture (2009), the D-SPAR art prize from the Dhillon-Marty foundation (2012) and the 3rd Prize in the Experimental section at the 42nd Athens International Film + Video festival, Ohio, USA (2015).

In 2011 Marc Johnson was commissioned by the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris a site-specific intervention (ATLAS-in-situ) in the Glass Atrium. Marc Johnson has been exhibiting worldwide including at the Fondation Ricard, Paris (2010), Nadiff gallery, Tokyo (2007), Valerie Bach gallery, Brussels (2011), Chandigarh Art College, Chandigard (2012), Nairang gallery, Lahore (2012), Organhaus Art Space, Chongqing (2014) and Jeu de Paume, Paris (2014), 65th International Filmfestspiele Berlin, Berlinale Shorts (2015), La Maréchalerie, Centre d'art Contemporain, Versailles, France (2016).