Nine And A Half Weeks



Elaine Levy Project is pleased to announce Nine and a Half Weeks, a series of weekly projects that will start on October 31st, 2009 and take place till the end of January 2010.

During almost three months, from November till January, Elaine Levy Project is taking a break and leaving space to Nine And A Half Weeks, a test project on the edge of the usual gallery functioning.

The dull context of the art market encouraged us to propose a playful and free reinterpretation of the gallery space. Thus Nine and a Half Weeks will propose little experimental forms out of the commercial constraints and which will address a wider public than usual.

Most of the projects will be open construction sites and thought as such, or at least they will offer a range of devices to activate the space. The audience will be invited according to constantly renewed modalities, and the artists will invest the workspace as they want.

Nine and has Half Weeks is thought to be a place not only dedicated to the spectator, but also as a work and research space...

Finally the title is a funny reference, first of all to the duration of this programming, but is besides an invitation for new improvised experiments in our small kitchen, by means of everyday cheap objects.

a project hosted by Elaine Lévy & Florent Delval

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samedi 12 décembre 2009

Wandering [Ride one] - Projet Diligence

Wandering is a performative, photographic and sculptural project which consists in riding the landscape, the city without skate board.Gathering three young French artists, Emilie Pischedda , Valentin Souquet and Barbara Fourneret, members of Projet Diligence artistic group.The city, its architecture, its climate, sound so many signs to be interpreted for these contemporary characters.The final proposition will be presented in the form of photographic and sculptural installation.
The skateboard is for us symbolic of the statement "Miracles of the idleness", of the leak. Paradoxically, it contains the notions of movement, mobility, risk-taking.
It is what interests us in a formal way: creating a directory of forms of the air suspensions, the falls, the jumps but also, a directory of landscapes, urban, uncultivated, uninhabited; also, natural landscape, poetic, evasive.
It questions a certain confusion of a disillusioned generation by revisiting the skateboard and its codified universe. The binomial, the couple, the wandering, the clothing style, a little bit outmoded youth of both protagonists of this fiction without scenario roam aimlessly in one or several cities which they cross.