ART
Lili Reynaud-Dewar |
Written 30 January |
Thursday 29 April, 19:00Galerie Kamel Mennour, 75006 [map]Lili Reynaud-Dewar
The term “retrofiction”, overused in places, is employed by Lili Reynaud-Dewar to describe a genuine artistic project, that of contributing to a critical re-reading of the world and its history by means of the production of fictions, objects and symbolic discourses that attempt to upset established, printed narratives.
Lili Reynaud-Dewar’s work creates an imaginary reality, where the choice of being enslaved seems to be voluntary, or suggested. Begun in 2009, “Power structures, rituals and sexuality among European stenographers” is made up of several parts, still in progress, which have resulted in the works displayed in the exhibition. Here, we discover several women: anonymous and whom we know only by their agile and efficient hands, and those whom we can immediately identify: Mary Knox, a performer venerated by the artist, who she met in a Glasgow nightclub in 2001, and the artist’s own mother.
Essentially characterised by an emotional detachment where her work is concerned (because art is work too), Lili Reynaud-Dewar builds the basis of a complex meditation on the very notion of origin.
| What: | Lili Reynaud-Dewar |
| When: | Thursday 29 April, 19:00 |
| Where: | Galerie Kamel Mennour, 47, rue Saint-André des arts 75006 [map] |
| Transport: | Odéon / Saint-Michel |
| Cost: | 0EUR |
| Phone: | 01 56 24 03 63 |
| Email: | galerie@kamelmennour.fr |
| Web: | www.kamelmennour.fr/ |
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