28 Feb 2017

Can what our eyes see make us go insane?
// Exhibition // Aurélie Dubois in Paris - France

« Voir peut-il rendre fou ? » (« Can what our eyes see make us go insane? ») is the first retrospective of Aurélie Dubois. It gathers 16 years of creation in Paris. The curator of the exhibition is the writer and historian of art, Paul Ardenne.
The exhibition puts the emphasis on drawing, hence an entire floor is dedicated to it. Photographs and installations complete this journey.

This exhibition is also the opportunity to discover her videos, such as The Corridors, a nominated short at the Festival Côté Court in 2015 and at the Traverse Vidéo in 2016. One will also be able to see her last experimental short Amour écrit en fer.

The resulting encounter between those different works will allow oneself to discover the full scope of Aurélie Dubois' shape-shifting work, her call for resistance and alertness, face with our modern society's misdemeanor and its taboos. 'Stay alert, on the alert!'

Since 1987, Aurélie Dubois has embraced an artistic motion in which she explores drawing, photography, videos and installations. Her work, from the outset, has kept in background the idea of an artistic 'garde'.
This idea of an 'Artiste de garde' (guard artist), established by the psychoanalyst and writer Daniel Androvski in 2008, inhabits her creations, to oppose the idea that a work of art's essence would be to adorn instead of giving meaning to itself or uncovering the nature of things.

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*AROUND THE EXHIBITION

Friday, March 24th, 7:00pm
Round table, 'The Transformed Body'
With Paul Ardenne (Historian and Art Critic), Daniel Androvski (Psychoanalyst and Writer), Doctor Jacques Ohana (Plastic Surgeon), Orly Rezlan (Lawyer)

Sunday, March 26th, 11:00am
Closing over a brunch

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*ABOUT 24BEAUBOURG
Located near the Center Pompidou, 24Beaubourg exposes artists from all horizons in a space larger than 280m². This space is dedicated to becoming a springboard for the new generation, a place of exhibition for confirmed artists or a Paris' showcase for foreign galleries. The programming, ensured today by Mijo Roussel, is based above meetings and favorites.

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*NEXT EXHIBITIONS

DDessin - Atelier Richelieu
With the Trans Gallery
Collective Exhibition
March 24th – 26th, 2017

CAIRN - Art Center of Digne-les-Bains
CAIRN: INFORMAL ART CENTER FOR NATURE RESEARCH
With The Museum of the Invisible - Pascal Pique
Collective Exhibition 'Pierres de Visions'
March 31st – June 11th, 2017

Residence 87
'Who are you that you do not recognize yourself?'
Personal Exhibition
June 10th - July 2nd, 2017

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www.aurelie-dubois.com
Exhibition from March 16th to 26th 2017 at 24Beaubourg
24, rue Beaubourg 75003 Paris // Vernissage on Thursday, March 16th , 2017
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