Eat the Blue by Jagna Ciuchta
from october 17th 2013 to january 11th 2014
Jagna Ciuchta’s recent work has focused on a critical observation of the institutional principals that determine how artworks should be presented, as well as the actual forms created by this presentation (wall hanging partitions, plinths, scenographic choice, documentation).
Eat the Blue is a constantly moving exhibition device, developed by the artist for use by other artists. Jagna Ciuchta indeed invites twenty artists to progressively occupy the space that will have been defined beforehand in the simplest way possible: several blocks of white and uncut polystyrene. Little by little the artists will transform this receptacle, responding to the evolution of its content, and in relation to their needs. Without curatorship or scenography, the protocol set down by Jagna Ciuchta aims to make some work, with the collaboration of others.
With an anti-authoriation and paradoxically omnipotent stance, Jagna Ciuchta’s Eat the Blue questions the modalities of choice and the presentation of artworks at the heart of the contemporary art world, and of artist’s authorship in relation to mass production. Can an exhibition be considered to function dynamically, like a living organism, which might be called upon to evolve over time and possibly become a monster?
An internet site is be set up for the exhibition : http://eattheblue.com
As the artworks created by the artists invited begin to emerge, and the variations on their positioning within the space become apparent, Jagna Ciuchta documents each stage of the exhibition, which will never be the same.
Artists invited:
Stéphane Bérard, Renaud Bézy, Julien Bouillon, Rada Boukova, Paul Branca, Guillaume Durrieu, David Evrard, Julie Favreau, David Horvitz, Emmanuelle Lainé, Vincent Lefaix, Ingrid Luche, Colombe Marcasiano, Cécile Noguès, Babeth Rambault, Samir Ramdani, Shanta Rao, Vanessa Safavi, Katharina Schmidt, Clémence Seilles, France Valliccioni, Julie Vayssière.
Eat the Blue is part of the exhibition Singularités partagées au 116 center for contemporary art at Montreuil (Paris). Curated by Marlène Rigler.
www.jagnaciuchta.com
