ALLEZ - offsite
Collective show with Romuald Dumas-Jandolo, Pauline Ghersi, Alan Schmalz and Anna Solal
November 16 - December 2, 2017
Espace Catherine Bastide, 19 rue du Chevalier Rôze, 13002 Marseille
Many artworks are born from an anecdote. Artists seize and shape scenes, lived or heard stories—an inexhaustible resource in their practice. Astérides itself serves here as an anecdote, bringing together Romuald Dumas-Jandolo, Pauline Ghersi, Alan Schmalz, and Anna Solal for the exhibition ALLEZ, presented on this occasion at the Catherine Bastide space. Despite the incongruity of the exercise, each artist represents, in their own way, a slice of their life in the city of Marseille. Without claiming to reflect an agglomeration of a thousand faces, most of the works enter into dialogue with Marseille—through images, clichés, and at times reflections of a certain economy of resourcefulness.
The artists currently in residence at Astérides draw as much from these images and clichés as from the chaotic urbanism the city offers. Anna Solal, in her sculptural and détournement work, absorbs a series of pop and sportswear symbols often disregarded or deemed vulgar, yet rich in plastic potential. Pauline Ghersi, for her part, uses video editing to write the story of a group of friends driven by desires, fictions, and projections. With the modesty that characterizes his work, Alan Schmalz proposes an architectural setup that confronts us with details of reality in all its triviality. In resonance with a certain visual saturation of the outside world, Romuald Dumas-Jandolo creates a theatrical installation meant to host sculptures that are both fragile and robust.
ALLEZ is a proposition, an injunction to move.
