What can be shown cannot be said (Ce qui peut être montré ne peut être dit)
December 2020, Le CAP Saint-Fons
With Grace Denis, Thomas Geiger, Anna Holveck, Dawn Nilo
Curated by Ekaterina Shcherbakova
In What Can Be Shown Cannot Be Said, Ekaterina Shcherbakova – the curator of the exhibition – offers a version of the history of SaintFons seen through the prism of fiction through the figure of Salomé Talvaz,
mystical character who would have stopped in the town of Saint-Fons, fascinated by the erratic block that has been there for years. Four international artists are invited to imagine or invent the links, the life and stories of Salomé Talavatz during her stay in the city.
While Thomas Geiger evokes in his performance protocol the "one hundred fountains" which would be the origin of the name of the city, Grace Denis
imagine an epistolary exchange between Salomé Talavaz and Alice Pénisson, a resident of Saint-Fons. In his video specially made for the project, Anna Holveck stages a character of which we do not know the identity, against the backdrop of the chemical valley.
Dawn Nilo, performance artist, invests the walls of the art center with a deep blue pigment, a metaphor for a space of contemplation and introspection.
The works in the exhibition then become doors that open onto another dimension, where what can be shown cannot be said.
Silence, however, offers an inexhaustible source of games of meaning. To make Salomé heard is to embark on a practice of divination, bearing in mind that the future does not exist. As Johanna Hedva suggests, “you say the future like you say history like you say your first name”. The figure of Salomé Talvaz plays the role of the timeless common sister of beings. Trying to show what cannot be said, she writes the time to come, while talking about the past.
The space of the art center, located opposite the Chemistry Valley, is converted into a cave where we are suggested to distinguish the shadows and echoes coming from the outside world in an anamnesis of the future.
Administration: Nicolas Audureau, Alexandra Prandin
December 2020, Le CAP Saint-Fons
With Grace Denis, Thomas Geiger, Anna Holveck, Dawn Nilo
Curated by Ekaterina Shcherbakova
In What Can Be Shown Cannot Be Said, Ekaterina Shcherbakova – the curator of the exhibition – offers a version of the history of SaintFons seen through the prism of fiction through the figure of Salomé Talvaz,
mystical character who would have stopped in the town of Saint-Fons, fascinated by the erratic block that has been there for years. Four international artists are invited to imagine or invent the links, the life and stories of Salomé Talavatz during her stay in the city.
While Thomas Geiger evokes in his performance protocol the "one hundred fountains" which would be the origin of the name of the city, Grace Denis
imagine an epistolary exchange between Salomé Talavaz and Alice Pénisson, a resident of Saint-Fons. In his video specially made for the project, Anna Holveck stages a character of which we do not know the identity, against the backdrop of the chemical valley.
Dawn Nilo, performance artist, invests the walls of the art center with a deep blue pigment, a metaphor for a space of contemplation and introspection.
The works in the exhibition then become doors that open onto another dimension, where what can be shown cannot be said.
Silence, however, offers an inexhaustible source of games of meaning. To make Salomé heard is to embark on a practice of divination, bearing in mind that the future does not exist. As Johanna Hedva suggests, “you say the future like you say history like you say your first name”. The figure of Salomé Talvaz plays the role of the timeless common sister of beings. Trying to show what cannot be said, she writes the time to come, while talking about the past.
The space of the art center, located opposite the Chemistry Valley, is converted into a cave where we are suggested to distinguish the shadows and echoes coming from the outside world in an anamnesis of the future.
Administration: Nicolas Audureau, Alexandra Prandin
