Sur pierres brûlantes at Triangle – Astérides Centre d’art contemporain

Artists: Victoire Barbot, Sophie Bueno-Boutellier, Madison Bycroft, Jeanne Rocher, Claude Cherel, Marie Perraud, Samir Laghouati-Rashwan, Timothée Calame, Nicolas Daubanes, Arthur Eskenazi, Organon Art Cie, Maïa Izzo-Foulquier, Fiona Mackay, Caroline Mesquita, Antoine Nessi, Sara Sadik, Alan Schmalz, Adrien Vescovi, Victor Yudaev

Exhibition title: Sur pierres brûlantes

Curated by: Céline Kopp & Marie de Gaulejac

Venue: Triangle – Astérides Centre d’art contemporain, Marseille, France

Date: August 28 – October 25, 2020

Photography: Aurélien Mole / images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Triangle – Astérides Centre d’art contemporain, Marseille

“There are cities in which we feel small… and others where we shine like a torch against the night. Where we are ceaselessly tossed between opposites and their metamorphoses” writes Haitian author Makenzy Orcel*. Some cities reach out and look you in the eye before swallowing you into the moving crowd of their collective body, touching you with their sounds, their empty spaces and street corners from another time, from where many stories have sprung. Sur pierres brûlantes is an exhibition taking as a point of departure the works of fourteen artists (with guests) working in the municipal studios of the City of Marseille. One of those “inferno [cities] whose heart grows as one enters into it”, where each step, each stone, and each face seems to be able to bring continents closer to each other. What these artists have in common is that they all breathe in the same movement of the city, where they have decided to be, create, and live. They partake in its rhythm and feel its desires and its resistance.

This exhibition is conceived as a reflection of the rich and diverse local art scene that unfolds beyond the gallery walls. It is filled with voices from the neighbourhood and is bathed in the vivid light from the outside that thickens the shadows. This exhibition contains many encounters and invitations. It channels the outside filled with real life and experiences, a common backdrop of sorts that sometimes appears in the works through tone, materials and affects.

*All quotes: Une boite de nuit à Calcutta, Nicolas Idier and Makenzy Orcel, Robert Laffont, 2019. (translation: Céline Kopp)

Exhibition view of “Sur pierres brûlantes”, Triangle – Astérides, Marseille, 2020

Adrien Vescovi, Invisible Forces, 2020, exhibition view of “Sur pierres brûlantes”, Triangle – Astérides, Marseille, 2020

Alan Schmalz, Emotional Gap (4444) (left) ; (Re) Education through risk zero (right), 2020, exhibition view of “Sur pierres brûlantes”, Triangle – Astérides, Marseille, 2020

Exhibition view of “Sur pierres brûlantes”, Triangle – Astérides, Marseille, 2020

Timothée Calame, Tiède car réchauffé (la bonne cuisine de mamie), 2020, exhibition view of “Sur pierres brûlantes”, Triangle – Astérides, Marseille, 2020

Timothée Calame, Perdue à Jamais (Triomphe du progrès) (left) ; Égoïsme Fonctionnel (Position adéquate) (right), 2020, exhibition view of “Sur pierres brûlantes”, Triangle – Astérides, Marseille, 2020

Exhibition view of “Sur pierres brûlantes”, Triangle – Astérides, Marseille, 2020

Fiona Mackay, adult room – with a view, 2020, exhibition view of “Sur pierres brûlantes”, Triangle – Astérides, Marseille, 2020

Caroline Mesquita, The Machine Room, 2018, exhibition view of “Sur pierres brûlantes”, Triangle – Astérides, Marseille, 2020

Exhibition view of “Sur pierres brûlantes”, Triangle – Astérides, Marseille, 2020

Adrien Vescovi, Invisible Forces, 2020, exhibition view of “Sur pierres brûlantes”, Triangle – Astérides, Marseille, 2020

Exhibition view of “Sur pierres brûlantes”, Triangle – Astérides, Marseille, 2020

Sara Sadik, Lacrizotiek, 2019, exhibition view of “Sur pierres brûlantes”, Triangle – Astérides, Marseille, 2020

Organon Art Cie, Belle de Mai à l’assaut du ciel, 2020, exhibition view of “Sur pierres brûlantes”, Triangle – Astérides, Marseille, 2020

Antoine Nessi, Mon docteur est mon dealer ; Mon coach est mon ami ; Soldat déguisé en infirmière, 2019 (from left to right), exhibition view of “Sur pierres brûlantes”, Triangle – Astérides, Marseille, 2020

Antoine Nessi, Exercice, 2019 (left) ; Maïa Izzo-Foulquier, Homme sandwich / Femme propagande , 2018 (right), exhibition view of “Sur pierres brûlantes”, Triangle – Astérides, Marseille, 2020

Madison Bycroft, Aidos Team, 2020 (drawing) ; Samir Laghouati-Rashwan, J’ai pensé à ta peau sous ton armure, 2020 (sculpture), exhibition view of “Sur pierres brûlantes”, Triangle – Astérides, Marseille, 2020

Exhibition view of “Sur pierres brûlantes”, Triangle – Astérides, Marseille, 2020

Adrien Vescovi, Invisible Forces, 2020, exhibition view of “Sur pierres brûlantes”, Triangle – Astérides, Marseille, 2020

Antoine Nessi, Soldat déguisé en infirmière, 2019, exhibition view of “Sur pierres brûlantes”, Triangle – Astérides, Marseille, 2020

Nicolas Daubanes, Prison Saint-Michel, Toulouse (left) ; THEY ARE THE INK (right), 2020, exhibition view of “Sur pierres brûlantes”, Triangle – Astérides, Marseille, 2020

Exhibition view of “Sur pierres brûlantes”, Triangle – Astérides, Marseille, 2020

Sophie Bueno-Boutellier, Ralentir à l’infini … Partager le silence, 2020, exhibition view of “Sur pierres brûlantes”, Triangle – Astérides, Marseille, 2020