"Niche market", JJ Von Panure

Exhibition from September 13 to October 31, 2024 Following a one-and-a-half-month residency at Moly-Sabata (Albert Gleizes Foundation)

Opening, Thursday September 12, 6pm

JJ von Panure is composed of Leïla Fromaget & Anastasia Gaspard. They live near Paris and work at Villa Belleville as part of the Curry Vavart collective.

A popular object with a long history, the fava bean questions the value of things. Since ancient times, it has been a symbol of the inversion of order in carnival rituals. They are at the heart of pagan and then religious power. As early as the industrial era, the ceramic bean, as we know it today, was manufactured. The ritual object became a product. Since 2017, the duo JJ von Panure has turned the fava bean into a constantly evolving artistic project. They have created "fève-sculptures", forming their own collection. At Galerie Tator, the duo are exhibiting a large ensemble of fèves, as well as their most recent production created during a residency at Moly-Sabata in August 2024, where they developed a series playing with points of view. Initiated on the occasion of the Mondial des collectneurs de fève des rois, the sculpture-beans are signed, titled and referenced in an ever-expanding catalog, forming a collection of 1,600 pieces to date. Each one is hand-modeled and hand-painted by the duo. The duo moves the intimate ritual of the epiphany into the public space of the art center, and conversely, the ritual of the exhibition into the intimate space, questioning the value of the ritual object, making the artwork profane and the bean sacred. JJ von Panure wishes to invest this tradition, and seeks to invent new practices in complicity with others, to tip the balance between high and low, the white cube and the flea market.