Les Petites Formes

With the videos of Fanny Adler, Marie Auvity, Olivier Babin, Fayçal Baghriche, Gilles Balmet, Audrey Bastard, Anahita Bathaie, Mladen Bizumic, Dominique Blais, Nicolas Boone, Vesna Bukovec, Antonio Contador, Isabelle Cornaro, Jean-Baptiste Couronne, Julie Coutureau, Frédérique Decombe, Marcelline Delbecq, Désœuvrement Production, Julien Discrit, Melissa Dubbin & Aaron S. Davidson, Elise Florenty, Andreas Fohr, Claire Fontaine, Liza Gabry, Marc Ganzglass, Xavier Gautier, Freya Hattenberger, Katharina Heilein, Ilanit Illouz, Bernard Joisten, Pierre Joseph, Wolf von Kries, Pierre Labat, Christine Laquet, Raphaël Larre, Pierre Leguillon, Ingrid Luche, Laurent Mareschal, Uwe Middel, Caroline Molusson, Eléonore de Montesquiou, François Paire, Cécile Paris, Vanessa Santullo, Peter Simon, Gregg Smith, Eric Stephany, Tsuneko Taniuchi, Maxime Thieffine, Transit (Robin Kobrynski & Eric Desjeux), Rémi Uchéda, Marie Voignier, Carlo Zanni, Liora Zittoun

Les Petites Formes is a programme showing short length videos which derive from or take part in the artists’ researches. This format, not compatible with large-scale exhibitions, often lead artists to integrate them into installations or encourage « spectacular » features. Having no specific broadcasting possibilities, these short videos were usually seen by the artists as side productions, research or footnotes. With no exposure and no status, these films were nevertheless constantly produced and piled up.
While offering to collect these videos, Les Petites Formes will invite each artist to take another look at his/her past work and change position. This program will highlight the relationship between the artist’s intention and the becoming of a work while questionning the impact of the viewer’s gaze on a piece.


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