PARIS.- The exhibition brings together individual and collective artistic practices which, while situated in a range of territories – the countryside, the mountains, islands – are all rooted in a choice to work beyond urban centres.
The exhibition’s title, which is borrowed from a work by Gina Proenza (“Toi et ta bande”), points to the many groups whose work is gathered here: artist collectives, high school students, choirs, communities for life, work and activism – a host of forms that reflect upon different ways of being together. The three dozen works presented in the exhibition, many of which have been produced for the occasion, have all taken shape in unique territories, including Brittany, the Cvennes, Corsica, Guadeloupe, the Hautes-Pyrnes, Limousin and the Basque Country.
The exhibition explores the concept of “topophilia”: an affective state that links people to spaces in a relationship enriched by different strands of ecological, social and territorial thought. This approach traces out the contours of new artistic geographies, where critical and poetic concepts develop and subtly infuse works of art, ways of working and material conditions of existence. The invited spaces and artists suggest, through their work, a range of modes of collective organisation and political aspirations, in communities that are sometimes fugitive but always open and driven by a sense of solidarity.
Curator: Liza Maignan Coordinator: Franois Piron
THE ARTISTS
Artetxe (Bastien Cosson and Elsa Oliarj-Ins), Tho Audoire, Johann Berger, Olga Boudin, Elsa Brs, Guillaume Cailleau et Ben Russell, Lisa Di Giovanni, Angle Dumont et La Lerma, Fossile Futur, Magali Paulin, Marine Peixoto, Jean-Baptiste Perret, Gina Proenza, RADO (Fanny Bguery and Adrien Malcor), Pacme Ricciardi, Mattea Riu, Brieuc Schieb, Collectif Silo (Lola Nogu, Tho Revelen-Bernard and Quentin Thirionet), La Tissot-Laura, Le Transfo (Lucie de Bodinat, Jeanne Gilois, June, Jade Marais, Louise Nicolas de Lamballerie), Alexiane Trapp, Marie Voignier
GUEST CURATOR
Liza Maignan is an independent curator, programmer and author. She was director of the Galerie Florence Loewy from 2020 to 2025. She teaches in the XP Master’s programme at the cole suprieure d’art et de design de Saint-tienne. In 2023, she was awarded the TextWork grant by the Fondation d’entreprise Pernod Ricard for her essay “Rumeurs des villes”. In 2025, she was a resident in the fifth edition of the Palais de Tokyo’s residency and research programme, La Friche. She is among the recipients of the 2027 Villa Kujoyama residency.
