On the occasion of the opening of the Persephone<\/em> summer exhibition by artist-designer Jeanne Vicerial<\/strong> and photographer Leslie Moquin<\/strong> in Arles, the Foundation invites authors and artists to an evening of performance readings based on intimacy and the relationship with the body. <\/p>\n Sunday July 2, 5pm-7pm<\/strong> <\/p>\n Reading program<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Agn\u00e8s Thurnauer<\/strong><\/p>\n Reading of a selection of 50 letters written by Agn\u00e8s Thurnauer to Henri Matisse between April 2021 and January 2022, during the preparation of her exhibition at the Mus\u00e9e Matisse in Nice. The artist focuses in particular on the question of ‘states’ in Matisse’s work, and the discovery of the conceptual nature of his work. Agn\u00e8s Thurnauer builds up her exhibition by turning to the Master day after day to support her own work.<\/p>\n Agn\u00e8s Thurnauer<\/strong> (Paris, 1962) is a Franco-Swiss artist living and working in Paris. Through her paintings, sculptures and installations, she addresses the question of language. This plasticity of language is experimented with in three dimensions, with her sculptures composed of molds of letters at different scales, allowing the gaze and the body to become involved. Her work came to public attention with a monographic exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo in 2003. Since then, she has exhibited at the Centre Pompidou, the Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts in Angers and Nantes, the Mus\u00e9e Matisse in Nice, and the Mus\u00e9e de l’Orangerie, as part of the commissioned-work\u00a0<\/i>Matrices Chromatiques. She regularly collaborates with writers, philosophers and poets on publications and artists’ books (Mich\u00e8le Cohen-Halimi, Tiphaine Samoyault, Rod Mengham…).<\/i><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Carole Douillard<\/strong><\/p>\n Phenomenon Sontag<\/em><\/p>\n A fragmentary reading of the diaries of American author and intellectual Susan Sontag (1933-2004), Ed.Christian Bourgois.<\/p>\n After 5 months of intensive presence, between 2019 and 2022, in Sontag’s Papers<\/em>, kept at UCLA, Los Angeles, Carole Douillard begins in Arles the restitutive adventure of her encounter with the sensitive and complex Susan. This first reading of the author’s diaries, published in 2006 by her son David Rieff, also sets the stage for Carole Douillard’s encounter with the vast Californian landscape, the physical and psychic setting for the dialogue she initiates with Susan Sontag, almost twenty years after her death.<\/p>\n Visual artist and performer, Carole Douillard<\/strong> uses her presence or that of performers as sculpture for minimal interventions in the exhibition space, complemented by documents, films, stories and photographs. For some years now, she has been interested in the question of archives, the conservation of memory and gesture over time. In 2022, she published Body Talks (Ed. Zero deux\/Presses du Reel), an interview with art critic Amelia Jones and pioneering Californian feminist performance artists Barbara T Smith and Suzanne Lacy. Since 2019, she has been conducting research in Los Angeles (Sur mesure\/Institut Fran\u00e7ais grant, Aide \u00e0 la Cr\u00e9ation, DRAC Pays de la Loire), where she is developing new pieces linked to the life of American writer and essayist Susan Sontag (1933-2004).<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sandra de Vivies<\/strong><\/p>\n Montage of extracts from La Femme du lac<\/em>, a hybrid narrative between narration, poetry and images.<\/p>\n The text stems from the discovery of around a hundred negatives or black windows that act as clairvoyant supports, enabling the narrator to weave links between different women, different periods and different places, especially in Germany. The material, sensory writing unfolds in a rhizome where each fragment echoes another, brushing against it, sometimes bumping into it. The reading will seek to bring out the different voices and spatio-temporal variations, as well as the images that emerge.<\/p>\n The writing and research work of Sandra de Vivies<\/strong> (lives and works in Brussels) focuses on photosensitive narratives, at the crossroads of literature, the humanities and images. She has published various texts and photographs in magazines and collective works, as well as a first book initiated during her residency at the Jan Michalski Foundation, Vivaces (Editions La place, 2021). Her photographic works are regularly exhibited, articulated with text – printed, read or performed with the complicity of musician Xavier Dubois. A graduate of the “Lettres, \u00c9copo\u00e9tique et Cr\u00e9ation” master’s program at the University of Aix-Marseille, she is also associate programmer of the ecopoetics festival in Li\u00e8ge.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n V\u00e9ronique Caye<\/strong><\/p>\n Les Magiciennes<\/em><\/p>\n Les Magiciennes<\/em> is a performance reading inspired by the writings of the Syrian-Lebanese poet Adonis (1930 -). “C’est elle la magicienne” are the opening lines of the poem that starts his Lexique Amoureux. Adonis’ entire oeuvre is an ode to women, a magician who returns “her passions to her body<\/em>” and invites us to love, freedom and poetry.<\/p>\n
\n“Correspondences” is following on from a series of poetic events (Equinoxes<\/em>) initiated by the Foundation from 2020, and publications by Editions Ishtar that mark the Foundation’s support and commitment to creative writing and contemporary poetry.<\/p>\n
\nReadings followed by a drink. With: V\u00e9ronique Caye, Carole Douillard, Nathalie Guiot, Barbara Polla, Agn\u00e8s Thurnauer and Sandra de Vivies.<\/strong>
\nBy reservation only
\n34 rue de l’amphith\u00e9\u00e2tre 13200 Arles<\/em><\/p>\n