THE AMERICAS : A FEW EXHIBITIONS

Tuesday, September 21st from 6pm to 8pm

Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art - Salle Vasari

Organization : Paul-Henri Giraud (CECILLE – Université de Lille) et Christine Zumello (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)

Intervenants : Éric de Chassey (Institut national d’histoire de l’art), Marie-Laure Bernadac (Musée du Louvre), Steve Bourget (Musée du Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac), Amélie Gastaut (Musée des Arts Décoratifs), Marta Gili (École nationale supérieure de la photographie), Olivier Michelon (Fondation Louis Vuitton) and Jonas Storsve (Cabinet des Arts Graphiques, Centre Pompidou).

To show the Americas, in France and in the world, is at the same time to expose (to propose an itinerary, to develop a discourse, to tell History in a certain way – to tell a story, or another story) and to expose oneself to the criticism of having left out or forgotten essential elements, or having privileged this or that point of view, of having given in to a bias that one is called upon to justify.

But, if we expect a curator to know the field that the exhibition is supposed to bring to life, are we not also asking him or her – and maybe overall – to engage his or her subjectivity in this exhibition, so as to offer a singular perspective on his/her object and to underline certain aspects of it that are perhaps not yet perceived or studied?

Indeed, the different countries, regions and territories composing the Americas are full of images and imaginaries that an exhibition can choose to face or thwart, displace, challenge. Whether this exhibition is one of artworks, photography, historical documents or performances connecting different visual arts, scenography – which has become an active and transformative component of every exhibition – questions the visitor and the artists. The exhibition itself aspires to be a real work of art, more or less lasting, moreover. In recent years, new places and new temporalities (the ephemeral, the “pop up”) have become important attributes of fluidity and proximity for exhibitions, allowing for the renewal of subjects or the invention of new ones.

It is about these different questions that we would like to discuss with several museographers and exhibition curators, researchers and French or foreign artists, who have been led to expose “the Americas” in their diversity.

Round Table organised with the support of CECILLE, Centre d'Études en Civilisations, Langues et Lettres Étrangères, ULR 4074, Université de Lille

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