Curators Statement
Exhibition, Performances, Podcast, Interventions. La Chaufferie – Fiminco Foundation, March 18 – May 6
From March 18 to May 6, 2023, the Fiminco Foundation invites the Center Wallonie-Bruxelles , currently closed for renovation, to invest its spaces as part of its Trouble-Fête Season #Cosmogonies Speculatives with the Symbiosium project, whose heart is an exhibition collective centered around the issues of symbiosis, interactions between organisms and the emergence of new stories about our time.
Added to this Manifesto collective exhibition is a program of performances, conferences, screenings of artists’ films, workshops, meetings or visits bringing together artists, thinkers, creators gathered around artistic approaches that probe the question of the living, of its irreducible temporality, the question of the structuring of reality and the stories that virtualize it.
The exhibition is designed as a living territory to be experimented with, thanks to which more than ten new works will be created and, for some, just for the duration of the exhibition. A real laboratory of creation and ideas offered to all audiences for 7 unprecedented, evolving, immersive, performative and participatory weeks to experience a vision of the world as the place for a collective creation of speech and thought between all communities of living beings: the symbiosium. 7 weeks to ” freaktiionnalise and decoincide reality ” according to the expression of Stéphanie Pécourt, director of the Center Wallonie-Bruxelles.
Collective Exhibition component:
Elise Peroi*, Anne-Marie Maes, Caroline Le Méhauté*, Jérémy Gobé, Charlotte Charbonnel, Charlotte Gautier Van Tour*, Jimmy Boury, Les Matribiotes (Charlotte Gautier van Tour and Luz Moreno), Côme Di Meglio*, Luca Vanello, Justine Bougerol and Silvio Palomo*, Antoine Bertin*, Fabien Léaustic , DISNOVATION.ORG , Skall , Claude Panier †, Angyvir Padilla * (resident artist Fondation Fiminco 22-23), Ève Gabriel Chabanon, Yoel Pytowski* (resident artist Fiminco Foundation 22-23), Gwendoline Robin, Mehdi-Georges Lahlou* (resident artist Fiminco Foundation 21-22), Shivay La Multiple , Alexis Deconinck, Juliette Minchin, Laura Sanchez Filomeno, Marie -Luce Nadal, Marie-Sarah Adenis, Angelo Vermeulen & Fred Sena (SEADS), Eugénie Touzé, Naomie Klaus*, Victoria Palacios & Basile3 *.
* In Situ Creations
Performances during the opening:
Stephan Goldrajc, Maïte Álvarez, Gwendoline Robin, Hélène Barrier, Eric Androa Mindre Kolo, Skall , Shivay La Multiple, Pak Yan Lau, Davide Tidoni, Clara!, Robin Faymonville and Aadriejan Montens.
Podcasts broadcast during the opening:
Thomas Turine , Henri Morelle, Vica Pacheco and Diane Barbe.
Throughout the period of the exhibition, the works will be activated by interventions by the artists, the public and the teams.
- Christopher Yggdre is an author and curator. He is the artistic director of the french Foundation LAccolade – Institute of France, and the curator of THE ELEMENTAL, an art center in Palm Springs (California, USA) https://carre-sur-seine.com/en/expert/christopher-yggdre
- A graduate in sociology, Stéphanie Pécourt has been, since 2019, Director of the Wallonie-Bruxelles Center in Paris, whose mandate is to contribute to promoting contemporary creation and the artistic signatures of all the territories of creative expression of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation https://saloon-brussels.be/portfolio/stephanie-pecourt