Beaux-Arts de Paris is delighted to participate in the sixth edition of LABO_DEMO, an initiative that aims to promote emerging and as yet unidentified artistic talents in order to highlight both the distinctive features of Belgian and French art school training programs and their interconnection at a time when artistic careers are becoming increasingly international.
The exhibition recreates, in its very scenography, the simulacrum of a corporate workspace. But this fictional coworking space is riddled with flaws, saturated with bugs, haunted by ghosts. It becomes the scene of a multitude of attempts at resistance aimed at breaking the spell of capitalist and bureaucratic logic. Some works bring back repressed emotions and muffled voices from vanished professions and deserted factories. Others invent corporate fictions or attach themselves to the administration to derail it. In this unstable landscape, populated by art-eating insects and nostalgic bots, team building turns into a dystopian tale. Slogans turn into tales of collapse. In places, dreams of escape pierce the sanitized surface of reality, like lights at the end of the tunnel.
Artists from Beaux-Arts de Paris: Joséphine Berthou, Ruoxi Jin, Raphaël Maman, Sara Noun, Clarisse Pillard, and Éditions Burn Aout.
Practical information
November 14 to December 4
Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles
Gallery, 127-129 rue Saint Martin, Paris 4
Free admission Monday to Saturday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
