GALERIE EXPÉRIMENTALE
Postcorps
May 13 - 22, 2022
Centre de création contemporaine Olivier Debré - Tours
What is a body? A distinct, organic entity and the site of a coherent subjectivity? Against such conventional definitions, many queer feminists have sought to denaturalize and rethink bodies by considering them as a sedimentation of gestures, contacts and affects or by thinking of them as a biological, technological and textual archive. These alternative views remind us that bodies have a history that is both intimate and political, that they are permeable and permutable, and that they are interdependent on their social and technological environments.
The exhibition "Postcorps" seeks to explore how such approaches that disturb and renew our understanding of the body find an echo in abstraction. If it is often considered an antonym of embodiment, "Postcorps" takes the gamble that abstraction represents a vital means of apprehending bodily experiences in all their complexity, their potentialities and their ambiguous materiality.
Curator: the students of L3 in art history of the University of Tours: Agathe Beignet-Aubert, Margot Bellamy, Clémence Bouloizeau, Nora Brahim, Marc Engry, Emma Jousse, Victor Lepers, Emma Salvador, Cloe Sennepin, Ines Suiving.
Supervisors: James Horton, teacher in contemporary art history at the Department of Art History, University of Tours & Élodie Stroecken, exhibition manager, cccod - Tours
Group exhibition with : Cécile Bouffard, Miho Dohi, Rachel de Joode, Damir Očko, Bruno Pelassy, Bettina Samson, Georges Tony Stoll, Attandi Trawalley.
Exhibition produced with the support of OSL Contemporary Gallery, Oslo.
The experimental gallery:
Since 2003, the CCC OD, in partnership with the University of Tours, welcomes each year a group of students of L3 of art history in order to initiate them to the curatorial process through the conception and realization of a curatorial project on a scale 1.
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