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Lyon
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Fromto
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Free entry
Showing or imagining language in different forms is what the exhibition "Tourner sa langue" is all about. "Turning" your tongue in your mouth, moving the spoken word around, giving it materiality like these verses in blown glass by Sofia Lautrec, or sketching it out with the stammering drawings by Laurence Cathala. While snatches of poems penetrate the space by being reflected in it, others nestle in the illegibility of a handwriting.
Sofia Lautrec is developing a profoundly material approach to language. The experience of meaning and the senses constantly evolves in a reciprocal transformation of the spoken or written texts and the materials used. In the first space of La BF15, the artist presents two sets of transparent sculptures. To create them, Sofia Lautrec asked a glassblower to recite Un poème in molten glass, giving it substance. Each bubble materializes the spoken language, but the text of the verse remains secret, shared only between the artist and the glassblower.
Laurence Cathala unfolds Scriptio Continua, a large drawing made up of different pieces of paper with illegible writing. The work is inspired by one of Marcel Proust's working methods, based on rewriting by adding paper to notebooks, which he called "paperolles". By weaving other sensitive relationships between print and manuscript, Laurence Cathala's Versions deploy a literature of fiction in the exhibition space, as well as in a book published by Sombres torrents.
Language occupies the space of a whisper.
Curated by Perrine Lacroix
Guided tour on Saturday at 3pm
Audience
All public
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Event(s) around the project
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- Résonance
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La BF15
Showing or imagining language in different forms is what the exhibition Tourner sa langue is all about. "Turning" your tongue in your mouth, moving the spoken word around, giving it materiality like these verses in blown glass by Sofia Lautrec, or sketching it out with the stammering drawings by Laurence Cathala. While snatches of poems penetrate the space by being reflected in it, others nestle in the illegibility of a handwriting.
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La BF15
Showing or imagining language in different forms is what the exhibition Tourner sa langue is all about. "Turning" your tongue in your mouth, moving the spoken word around, giving it materiality like these verses in blown glass by Sofia Lautrec, or sketching it out with the stammering drawings by Laurence Cathala. While snatches of poems penetrate the space by being reflected in it, others nestle in the illegibility of a handwriting.
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La BF15
Showing or imagining language in different forms is what the exhibition Tourner sa langue is all about. "Turning" your tongue in your mouth, moving the spoken word around, giving it materiality like these verses in blown glass by Sofia Lautrec, or sketching it out with the stammering drawings by Laurence Cathala. While snatches of poems penetrate the space by being reflected in it, others nestle in the illegibility of a handwriting.
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La BF15
Launch and reading of Versions by Laurence Cathala followed by the presentation of Some of us, Artistes contemporainexs, an anthology, in the presence of Marianne Derrien and Jérôme Cotinet-Alphaize