État des Lieux #2
FLASHES – Prefiguration of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson (AZ, USA)
Collection JRP

ÉTAT DES LIEUX
To mark our tenth anniversary in the year 2000 and everyone’s entry into the Third Millennium, we decided to give the Centre of contemporary art an even greater opening. The outcome is a special program called État des lieux, aiming to set up an inventory of the various aspects of current art.

Going against established practice, we decided to invite guest curators and ask them to take stock of what is happening in art now, with a view to describing the present and outlining the future. The project broke down into four events-exhibitions – four inventories – spread out over the entire year.

These État des lieux, events or exhibitions circumscribed in space and time, bring together artists in the broad meaning of the term, who focus on the concerns of the guest curators. Their job is to establish lines of communication between the various forms of thought for which art is the medium. Each of these presentations is a statement by the curator, expressive of his or her convictions.

PREFIGURATION OF THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, TUCSON (AZ, USA) · JRP COLLECTION
The choice of the works and their articulation was established on the basis of this light advance on reality. It tells at the same time the heterogeneity of the contemporary practices and their cut with fields of activity as various as tattooing, do-it-yourself, photography, design or the seam. The works build the representation of a museum which would not have sat on the instruments of its own legitimation, but on the faults of its very existence and on the line of a fundamental impurity of art. A fiction for a museum to come…

The demonstration is organized by Lionel Bovier, director of the publisher and brings together various artists: Francis Baudevin, Geraldine Belmont, Stéphane Dafflon, Liam Gillick, Fabrice Gygi, Scott King, Klat, Alix Lambert, John Miller, Amy O’ Neill, May-Thu Perret, Xavier Veilhan, etc.