How can we create a different world from what remains the same? How can we transform the world we carry within us? Our inheritances remain active in the present. Idealized and frozen, they can replay the same patterns and deepen the impasse. Digested, they become springboards. Some may even hold futures that have yet to unfold. From Teva to Geography of Memory and Futur /ɛɡ.zo.se/ (future exhaussé or exaucé — elevated or fulfilled future), three exhibitions echo one another around the same question: what do we do with what constitutes us?
In the face of heat and the violence of today’s world, Teva rekindles the symbolism of Noah’s Ark as a place of protection, transformation and renewal. In stark contrast to Dante’s Inferno, where all possibility of metamorphosis has been extinguished, the Ark is only a temporary refuge, preparing the way for a return to the world. On view until 1 November 2026 in the gardens of the Fondation Villa Datris in L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, Teva invites each of us to preserve hope, the integrity of language, and the possibility of a repaired future.
On 15 May 2026, Teva will join the gardens of the Fondation Villa Datris in L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue for the exhibition Mediterranean, Contemporary Odysseys. Created in 2017 in Geneva, this immobile steel ark explores the notions of crossing, exile and rebirth. Between biblical memory, migration and the hope of a habitable world, Teva will remain on display there until 1 November 2026.
The first edition of LABA Paris is coming to a close. Its presentation will take place in Paris on November 18 and 19, after several months of intense exchange with artists as singular as Sarah Makharine, Milena Kartowski-Aiach, Rachel Marks, Frieda Guerson, Caspar Noyon, Julie Rebecca Poulain, and Sharon Alfassi, as well as with teachers of Jewish texts.
The students of the International School of Geneva and I are delighted to invite you to the opening of the exhibition Origins, which they have organized on Thursday, September 25 at 5 p.m. at the Centre des Arts, Ecolint.
Lately, it seems that memory occupies me without troubling me anymore.
Memory, as a vector of change, is what moves me.
I call it the Exalted Future — ex-haussé, that which lifts us toward the better parts of ourselves.
Quatre panneaux en or sur le thème des océans sont présentés à Nice au Negresco jusqu’au 31 aout 2025. Je les ai créés spécialement pour la 3ème conférence des Nations Unies sur les océans qui se tient à Nice à l’invitation de la France. Ces œuvres ont trouvés un écrin dans le salon Royal, Rotonde de cet hôtel mythique, classé patrimoine du XXeme siècle.
Réfléchissements questioned memory, the encounter with oneself and the possibility of encountering the other. Edgar Morin in his book Leçons d’un siècle de vie (Lessons from a Century of Life) tells us that self-consciousness only achieves satisfaction in another self-consciousness. A reflection-réfléchissement?
The RÉFLÉCHISSEMENTS are ready to welcome you. From Thursday September 26 at 1pm and for the vernissage from 6 to 9 pm at 7 rue Pleyel 75012 Paris (Métro Daumesnil) from September 26 to October 26, 2024.
As announced on June 19, and on instagram, I’m preparing an installation in Paris, and I invite you to the opening on September 26 from 6 to 9 pm. RÉFLÉCHISSEMENTS will be presented at 7 rue Pleyel 75012 Paris (Métro Daumesnil) from September 26 to October 26, 2024.
Between two lines, between two words, there is more than the space that gives them meaning. There is the passing of life, fear and breathing which slowly, gently, mends the gaps and reveals, in black and white, the arithmetic of time that has passed.
I was just writing to you to announce that I have been invited to do a work on peace by Barbara Polla, the fabulous gallery owner, writer and essayist, as part of the 6th Forever Books and to invite you to the presentation which will take place Wednesday October 11, 2023 from 5 to 9 p.m. in collaboration with Héros-Limite editions at Analix Forever.
Man is a chapel he never visits. In the chaos of time he aims to conquer, He constantly forgets his sacred strength. And so, he scatters it in harmful fires.
I am back in Timisoara, at the beginning of winter, to talk about nature with eminent researchers and artists. I am invited by the West University of Timisoara for a conference on the interconnections between art and nature. My talk is called “Wood, dead birds and water” on Thursday November 3rd, around 15:30
