Arthur Eskenazi
Arthur Eskenazi lives and works in Paris (FR).
The work of Arthur Eskenazi is multiple and protean, not attaching itself to any particular discipline but considering them all as territories with particular topographies that we would have to cross.
Performance, dance, theater, scenography, but also video, installation, drawing, writing or painting represent like a great planisphere with porous and moving boundaries depending on the body that passes through them, the specific situations which it makes the experience and which can only be transmitted by telling the story. But which one?
The question of discourse on the work takes then an important place in it ambiguous relation that it talks between lie and truth. But behind it is actually hiding the means of production. If it is the discourse that allows the artist to work (grant files, calls for projects, application for residence …) if it is still him who fix the value of the work done (since a work of Art today is judged only by the credibility of relations - and the artist invents - that the artistic object maintains with his discourse) which space remains it for the transmission of artistic experience, which one can not be summed up in word, but in gestures, temporality, or quality of address?
To take this discourse as “pre-text” to the creation of a form, to the creation of an experience that can not be anything other than the temporality necessary to the appearance and transmission of an event, historical as well as artistic.
Arthur Eskenazi is a graduate of the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 2012 and a master’s degree in exe.r.ce from the Center Chorégraphique National de Montpelier in 2015.
In 2012, in collaboration with Jennifer Lauro-Mariani, he set up the project of dance “The IPSE” on the occasion of the “Danse Elargie du Théâtre de la Ville et du Musée de la Danse” (Special Mention of the Jury). With proven experience, IPSE will thereafter develop into two other versions: in 2013 for the Festival Petites Formes (D)Cousues au Point Ephémère in Paris and in 2014 for the Festival Les Hivernales in Avignon. At the same time, he co-wrote this year with Elsa Eskenazi the play A la sarbacane which they stage, and assists the director Jessica Dalle as playwright and stage designer for the play Walpurg-Tragédie (Théâtre de la Cité Internationale, December 2016).
In 2015, he founded during a residence in Pact Zollverein a multi-disciplinary Franco-German research group, the aim of which was to make artists work with different mediums and questions. He regularly performs for performances and choreographic pieces.
His plastic work was presented in several collective exhibitions in France, Germany and Japan.
