About DE RENAVA OFF 01 BIENNAL 01

La Notte

De Renava OFF x Centre Pompidou

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© Cerith WYN EVANS, Pasolini Ostia Remix (détail)

FOR THIS EXEPTIONAL COLLABORATION, DE RENAVA OFF DIVED INTO THE MEDITERRANEAN DNA OF THE CENTRE POMPIDOU'S COLLECTIONS, TO EXTRACT 13 ARTWORKS BY ARTISTS FROM THE "INLAND SEA" OR INSPIRED BY THIS ARTISTIC LANDSCAPE.

 


La Notte - named after Michelangelo Antonioni’s famous film – is, based on its model, a walk through a Mediterranean night, filled with encounters and offering a nebulous, diffracted, oneiric and non-exhaustive vision of a certain Mediterranean imaginary. The itinerary proposes to explore its representative motifs, which extend beyond this geographical space, transcribing a Mediterranean essence with a universal radiance. Detaching from any cliché, La Notte offers a free and surprising depiction of this imaginary.
 
The night is here indeed synonymous with freedom. By its inspiring dark light, it is a space where the borders between reality and dream are blurred, a place of reunion between the sacred and the profane, a territory where the bodies wander, melt, fade away, at times leaving only the ghostly traces of their passage.

The exhibition seeks to embody a Mediterranean perfume rather than a tangible, chronological or aesthetic vision. As eternal as it is ephemeral - from classical mythology to popular codes - as plural as it is singular - like the countless cultures coming together under the dome of the Mediterranean identity - it is a perfume that often escapes from us, but from which we cannot escape.

  • Luc ZANGRIE
  • Marwan RECHMAOUI
  • Cerith WYN EVANS
  • Kenneth ANGER
  • Mohamed BOUROUISSA
  • Neïl BELOUFA
  • Mona HATOUM
  • Zoulikha BOUABDELLAH
  • Leandro ERLICH
  • Ange LECCIA
  • Jean GENET
  • Kader ATTIA
  • Pipilotti RIST

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