Loan of the work from the IAC Collection, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes :
Alain SÉCHAS, Suicide, 1991
Alain SÉCHAS, Suicide, 1991
Fait divers : une hypothèse en 26 lettres, 5 équations et aucune réponse, 15/11/2024 to 13/04/2025 MAC VAL - Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
Roland Barthes's Structure du fait divers (1964) was certainly the inspiration for this exhibition. The ‘bastard brother of information’, according to the semiologist, the news item helps us to name and identify the aberrant causalities and coincidental relationships that disrupt everyday life. ‘Faits divers - Une hypothèse en 26 lettres, 5 équations et aucune réponse’ offers a broad and comprehensive artistic panorama and plays on the principles of enigma and trickery.
The MAC VAL is conducting a genuine investigation, curated by its director Nicolas Surlapierre, in association with Vincent Lavoie, art historian and full professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal. ‘Faits divers’, which brings together no fewer than 80 artists from a wide range of backgrounds and formal practices, has been awarded the label of national interest (EIN). Visitors will be able to decipher the workings of the genre through an innovative scenography that provides the keys to deciphering a wide range of artistic proposals. And as the subtitle of the exhibition announces, ‘A hypothesis in 26 letters, 5 equations and no answer’, each visitor can give free rein to his or her imagination and free will.
This group exhibition marks the 20th anniversary of the MAC VAL, which will be celebrated throughout 2025.
Roland Barthes's Structure du fait divers (1964) was certainly the inspiration for this exhibition. The ‘bastard brother of information’, according to the semiologist, the news item helps us to name and identify the aberrant causalities and coincidental relationships that disrupt everyday life. ‘Faits divers - Une hypothèse en 26 lettres, 5 équations et aucune réponse’ offers a broad and comprehensive artistic panorama and plays on the principles of enigma and trickery.
The MAC VAL is conducting a genuine investigation, curated by its director Nicolas Surlapierre, in association with Vincent Lavoie, art historian and full professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal. ‘Faits divers’, which brings together no fewer than 80 artists from a wide range of backgrounds and formal practices, has been awarded the label of national interest (EIN). Visitors will be able to decipher the workings of the genre through an innovative scenography that provides the keys to deciphering a wide range of artistic proposals. And as the subtitle of the exhibition announces, ‘A hypothesis in 26 letters, 5 equations and no answer’, each visitor can give free rein to his or her imagination and free will.
This group exhibition marks the 20th anniversary of the MAC VAL, which will be celebrated throughout 2025.
