Tour of the three reopening exhibitions with mediator Delphine Melliès to explore the work and stories of artists Ingeborg Lüscher, Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah and Mai-Thu Perret. To continue this moment of exchange, an afternoon snack will be offered at the refreshment stand in the courtyard of the Centre culturel suisse.
MAI-THU PERRET – OTHERMOTHERS Mai-Thu Perret’s first institutional exhibition in Paris (born in 1976, lives and works in Genève), Othermothers transports us into a cosmic space-time. A matrix-like universe populated by powerful divinities and mischievous creatures, the exhibition summons a chimerical history of representation, introducing a new genealogy of goddesses. Moving from sound to ceramics, from bronze to neon, from tapestry to blown glass, the artist hybridizes materials and mythologies. With a gaze that is both critical and spiritual, Othermothers invokes new dissident cosmogonies and the possibility of a mutant, sororal contemporary narrative. INGEBORG LÜSCHER – FLAMMES Retracing the practice of Ingeborg Lüscher (born 1936 in Allemagne; lives and works in Tessin), the exhibition Flammes reveals the relationship with combustion that the artist has developed from her earliest experiments to the present day. From sulfur to ash, from embers to curls of smoke, the works on view explore the vitality of fire and its creative, unruly power. After an initial career as an actress, Ingeborg Lüscher began, in the late 1960s, a visual, pictorial and performative practice that has remained with her ever since. She also developed a unique photographic practice, documenting loved ones, encounters and landscapes seen during her travels and in everyday life. From 1975 onward, the artist also created conceptual and autobiographical works around chance, love and dreams. Flammes explores the vitality of a rich artistic career nourished by an ongoing quest for transformation, a deep interest in cyclical processes from destruction to renewal, in matter and bodies, from absence to rebirth. AKOSUA VIKTORIA ADU-SANYAH – NO FLOWERS Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah’s first solo exhibition in France (born in 1990, lives and works in Zurich), no flowers reflects on absence, mourning and the violence inherent in medical and technological systems. The exhibition presents a central piece from the DELIRIUM body of work, begun in 2022, and no flowers, the chapter developed around the artist’s book of the same name, co-published with the Centre culturel suisse. While DELIRIUM marked a moment of destabilization in which the portrait of the artist’s father entered a generative process of distortion, no flowers turns toward an act of preservation. Analog photographs of bouquets of dried flowers form the material basis of the project. In 2022, some were processed by a promptless generative image system, producing visual mutations that were then transferred onto negatives and printed in the darkroom. They appear alongside fragments from the medical journey of the artist’s father and clinical observations written by his last doctor in Accra. In the form of contact prints, this clinical language — precise and procedural — reappears as physical material. The repetition of flowers, sometimes intact, sometimes altered, surrounds the figure of the father like a posthumous gesture: not a conclusion, but a presence. Between disorientation, perseverance and care, no flowers creates a space of resistance to disappearance through the material presence of the image.
Price: Free with reservation
Source: paris.fr — photo: Photo © Tristan Savoy