Through twenty emblematic and unpublished works by modern and contemporary artists, the scenography opens a journey from the domestic space of the young woman to the real and fantasized environments of the narrator. The exhibition The Fugitive, which highlights the character of Albertine, was conceived by Ana Mendoza Aldana, passionate reader of the work of Marcel Proust in collaboration with Claire Le Restif, director of the Centre d'art contemporain d'Ivry.
© Autumn Ramsey, Venus, 2022 Oil on canvas. 76 x 61 cm Photo: Tom Van Eynde Courtesy of the artist and Crèvecœur, Paris and © Autumn Ramsey, A bloom, 2022 Oil on canvas. 61x 46 cm Courtesy of the artist and Crèvecœur, Paris
The Fugitive is the title that Marcel Proust originally gave to the VIe volume ofLooking for lost time. Literary monument par excellence, the Research is the portrait of a "dispa-raisante" society at the dawn of a new century, a long reflection on remembrance, on memory, on creation, on jealousy…
Albertine expresses herself little throughout the book and her image appears constantly distorted by the narrator’s moods (by his fiery attraction, by his jealousy, and by his tireless quest to grasp the "truth" about the heroine).
If the writer keeps Albertine captive in her apartment in the Fifth volume (The Prisoner), if he constantly makes her follow and watches for the slightest contradic tion in his statements every time he questions her, she manages at the end of the writing to escape her grip. Albertine dies on the first pages of the sixth volume in a horse accident, and by this ultimate death, the heroine, her irreverence, her unattainable mystery, escape forever the narrator.
Albertine is synonymous with freedom in the Research
Little bourgeois and orpheline, she gradually attained high society, she was cultivated, distinguée and had better taste than the duchesses and marquesas who made the mundane life of the novel. Albertine also devoted herself to the shadow of the narrator’s gaze and to that of the good morals of society at the beginning of the twentieth century, to the pleasures that are hers.
The exhibition The Fugitive is a tribute to the Proustian universe and an attempt to reconstruct the universe of Albertine and her friends. The artists all present works that follow the functioning of the Research or who openly propose the deconstruction of a dominant ideology.
Group exhibition
Chantal Akerman. Born 1950 in Brussels, died 2015 in Paris. For The Fugitive is presented the film The House (1972) with a new device.
Mélissa Boucher, 1985, France (lives in Pré-Saint-Gervais, works in Aubervilliers). Mélissa Boucher presents new prints as part of the exhibition La Fugitive.
Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz (live and work in Berlin).
A duo of artists who have been working together since 2007, they create video installations about the history of queer people. As part of the exhibition at the Crédac, the video Opaque, 2014, as well as Wig Piece (Entangled Phenomena VI), 2019.
Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, Opaque, 2014. Super 16mm film/ HD video © Photo stills courtesy of the artists, Marcelle Alix, Paris & Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
Cécile Bouffardborn in 1987 (lives and works in Paris and Arcueil). For The Fugitive, Cécile Bouffard presents an installation composed of works produced for the exhibition.
Anne Bourseborn in 1982 (lives and works in Paris). Anne Bourse presents a set of new works as part of La Fugi-tive.
Marc-Camille Chaimowicz, 1947, France (lives and works in London). For the exhibition at the Crédac, the work is presented A Partial Vocabulary (1984-2008) , belonging to the FRAC Aquitaine collection.
Marc Camille Chaimowicz, A Partial Vocabulary, 1984-2008, Collection Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine Méca. © Marc Camille Chaimowicz © photographer: Jean-Christophe Garcia
Jean de Sagazanborn in 1988 (lives and works in Paris). For The Fugitive, Jean de Sagazan presents two large canvases (270 x 210 cm and 270 x 200 cm) The last dance 6.4 and The last dance 6.5, both from 2021.
© Jean de Sagazan, The last dance 6.4, 2021. Acrylic, cotton dye. Courtesy of the artist and The last dance 6.5, 2021. Acrylic, dye on cotton Courtesy of the artist
Marcel Devillersborn in 1991 (lives and works in Paris). As part of the exhibition The Fugitive, Marcel Devillers writes and records a set of unpublished poems and produces a new work.
G.B. Jonesborn in 1965 (lives and works in Toronto). For the exhibition at the Crédac, three drawings from Tom Girls J.D (1985-1991).
© G.B. Jones, Motorcycle girls, 1988 Graphite on paper, 21.5 x 19 cm Courtesy of the artist and Cooper Cole, Toronto
Tirdad Hashemi (1991) Tehran and Soufia Erfanian (1990) , Mashad (Iran) live and work in Berlin. The Fugitive brings together six drawings made with four hands by the Iranian couple.
© Tirdad Hashemi and Soufia Erfanian, Kissing you is like jumping in a pool of cream2021. Mixed media on paper. 49.3 x 84 cm (61.5 x 86 x 4.5 cm box) Courtesy of the artist and gb agency, Paris
Marie Laurencin 1883-1956, France. Artist sometimes mocked by the feebleness of his paintings, Laurencin is a pioneer of Dadaism and Cubism. His works depict androgynous girls and adolescent girls. She was for a long time the companion of Apollinaire, but also of Nicole Groult, a costume designer who had imposed the “garçonne” fashion, and of Yvonne Chas-tel, who also has a relationship with Marcel Duchamp. His work is more trans-sequent than it seems. Four prints loaned by the Musée d'art moderne de Paris will be exhibited for the Crédac exhibition.
Autumn Ramseyborn 1976 (lives and works in Chicago). For La Fugitive, the American artist will show two recent paintings and one painting for the exhibition.
© Autumn Ramsey, Seized, 2022 Oil on canvas. 76 x 61 cm Courtesy of the artist and Crèvecœur, Paris
Lena Vandrey, born in 1941 in Breslau and died in 2018 in Montpellier. The works of Lena Vandrey chosen for the exhibition The Fugitive compose an Installation present in the right corner of the room called by the artist «The Cabinet of Curiosities» of his Museum, in Bourg-Saint-Andéol.
Zoe Williams1973 (lives and works in London).
As part of The Fugitive, the artist shows three previous pieces as well as a new imposing ceramic sculpture made as part of his residence at Villa Asger Jorn in Albissola, Italy.
© Zoe Williams, Carol Rama shoe, 2019. Hand-enamelled ceramic, rabbit fur. Courtesy of the artist and Ciaccia Levi, Paris – Milan and Salmon Heel, 2019 Hand-enamelled ceramic with golden lustre, rabbit fur. Courtesy of the artist and Ciaccia Levi, Paris - Milan
December programming
- Saturday 17 December, 16:00
Marcel Devillers bed I’m Jessica, I say, set of poems written for The Fugitive. Duration: approximately 15 minutes.
Free entrance.
- Sunday 18 December, 16:00
Sunday visit Visit accompanied by the exhibition by Julia Leclerc, mediator.
Free entrance.
- Until December 27, the cinema of Ivry - the Luxy offers a program of classic films in version restored around
The Fugitive. The eyes of six women filmmakers question the forms that can take violence and moral injunctions, but also desire and love, the need for emancipation and that of creation.
Meetings related to this exhibition are now available in podcast:
- "Marc Camille Chaimowicz" by Marie Canet (art critic and curator) - Anchor, Spotify, Apple Podcasts
- "Identity and self representation at Barbara Hammer" by Martina Panelli (Doctor of Film Studies) - Anchor, Spotify, Apple Podcasts
- "Life and work of Djuna Barnes" by Étienne Dobenesque (publisher of the complete works of the American author) - Anchor, Spotify, Apple Podcasts
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