This year again, La Chartreuse de Villeneuve-lez-Avignon renews its confidence in Exchanger22 by entrusting it with the programming of its annual exhibition at the Bugade. For this seventh edition, the public will be invited to discover D'une cellule l'autre, an exhibition that brings together four visual artists: Arnaud Vasseux, Mathilde Geldhof, Raphaël Tiberghien and Won Jy.
Imbued with the history of the building and its architecture, the artists will explore the silences and hollows of this monument intended for voluntary confinement and constraint.
Raphael Tiberghien, whose work questions the link between language, writing and plastic forms, focused on the faults and cracks in the thick walls of cells. By completing the voids with a series of ceramic forms, the artist reveals the strength and fragility that invites the visitor to a pareidolic reading of space.
Arnaud Vasseux, whose proposal is developed from the place, is interested in the bias of the building. The cell/ chapel where the office was held for prisoners, with scholarly bowls of skylights to hear the/ voices and see the cross. All these elements constitute reasons on which he wishes to rely, to materialize the presence over a long period of bodies and lives that have «inhabited» the place. The artist would like to take into account silence (as a rule, as a constraint, as a choice) as well as deviations from rule and order.
Mathilde Geldhof, mixes photographs and plastic creations, which she puts in relation by objects and installations in a dialogue between material and immaterial. Here, the artist explores the maze of places using the model object, which she diverts to dress herself signifying the embodied link between those who lived there and the powerful walls of the Chartreuse.
For D'une Cellule the other Won Jy will reactivate one of his major projects named «Columbarium» from funeral rituals. Also, he will devote his residency time to the Exchanger22 to readapt his work in a specific way to the exhibition space. In parallel and during ambulatory research, he will look at the landscapes on the banks of the Rhône, between Roquemaure and Villeneuve-lès-Avignon to collect the sediments and restore a site-specific installation.
An exhibition programmed as part of the 13th edition of Architecture en fête.