It’s like a jungle sometimes
Solo and collective show displaying Matthieu Clainchard’s work, with artworks from Fayçal Baghriche, Lewis Baltz, Yves Bélorgey, Stanley Brouwn, Dector & Dupuy, Vincent Ganivet, Liam Gillick, Peter Halley, Denis Hopper, Colombe Marcasiano, Benjamin Seror, Veit Stratmann and Raphaël Zarka
April, 20 - June 12, 2010, public opening on April 17, 2010 from 6PM
Galerie de la Friche La Belle de Mai, La Tour, 2nd floor, 41 rue Jobin, 13003 Marseille
The first solo exhibition of Matthieu Clainchard since the cessation of his activity within the collective Bad Beuys Entertainment, the exhibition is composed like a schematic and fragmented representation of a landscape with strong urban connotations. Dissecting the social body, collective living, the media, political and administrative systems, both major and minor history, and the place of artists and alternative cultures, Clainchard seeks to dismantle the construction of bodies and social spaces while asserting the imaginary as both an escape route and an active fiction: indeed, many of his works refer to, or exist only in, spaces outside the white cube, transforming them as if art and life were ultimately intertwined. The exhibition intentionally invokes the works of other artists in the construction of this grand image, in which Clainchard ultimately positions himself as the main author. Far from the tired, marketable discourses on utopias and in contrast to conservative structuralism, Clainchard invites us to an exciting and multifaceted brainstorming session, nourished by multiple contemporary theories, from cultural studies to storytelling, to philosophies of risk and accident, all set to the relentless refrain of The Message: It’s like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder how I keep from going under…