exhibition: LET´S DANCE!
place: MAC/VAL
date: 22/10/10- 16/01/11
artists: Fanny Adler et Cécile Paris, Saâdane Afif, Doug Aitken, Darren Almond, Pierre Ardouvin, Fiona Banner, Walead Beshty, Christian Boltanski, Rebecca Bournigault, Anne Brégeaut, Claude Closky, Nathan Coley, François-Xavier Courrèges, Jeremy Deller, Peter Dreher, Elmgreen & Dragset, Valérie Favre, Sandra Foltz et Laurent Sfar, Douglas Gordon, Stuart Haygarth, Pierre Huyghe, Claude Lévêque, Arnaud Maguet, Melanie Manchot, Bernhard Martin, Kris Martin, Pascal Martinez, Gianni Motti, Marylène Negro, Vincent Olinet, Amy O'Neill, Hans Op de Beeck, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Philippe Parreno, Élisa Pône, Bruno Serralongue, Elisabeth Subrin, Jean-Luc Verna, Mark Wallinger.
curator: Frank Lamy
Of course, "Let's Dance" refers to the famous album by David Bowie (1983), the melancholic accents. An invitation? An injunction? Curiously, this reasoning as attractive as a slogan chanted by former ACT UP: "J" will go dancing anyway! "Because this is here a form of resistance. This exhibition gives us a vision to decor. melancholy, about the exposure is in some way. Experience the urge to commemorate together the events of life, is a son of the red exposure that connect the fifty works of international artists gathered for "Let's Dance" from October 22 to January 16, 2011.
"Let's Dance" offers to visit the commonplaces of the celebration through his reasons: birthday, fireworks, candle, cake, celebration of neighbors, the rites of passage, music ... all of which are meeting points for communities that do not prevent, however, the loneliness.
The exhibition has been conceived as a large vanity ... As to metering, snippets of stories are woven. Events perceived by stealth, with the turning of a plant or sculpture, video or painting, are all possible moments, unsettling and incomplete. But these scenes are fairly universal to enable each and everyone can identify.
