Ces dernières années
Autumn 2021. The world is slowly emerging from the lethargy imposed by the global pandemic. What we all hope will be a global accident will have acted as a magnifying glass on social and societal inequalities. If the entire planet has suffered from this virus, it is clear that we have not been treated equally according to our social condition, our skin color, our gender or our country. Beyond the COVID-19 crisis, the last few years have also generated real awareness that we hope will last. Whether they reveal themselves through violent or pacifist demands, legitimate or debatable, they have nevertheless allowed us to “problematize” a world too reluctant to question its fundamentals
The exhibition Ces dernières années proposes to look together at how the artworks that have recently entered the collection of the Frac Bretagne reflect the sounds of our world. They evoke with poetry and commitment the feminist and ecological questions, the notions of withdrawal and confinement, popular struggles or social conditions.
Finally, because a public collection of contemporary art is also, and perhaps even above all, a meeting of artistic expressions present and active in a here and now.
THE ARTISTS
Iván Argote
Born in 1983. Lives and works in Paris.
Maja Bajevic
Born in 1967. Lives and works in Sarajevo, Berlin and Paris.
Estelle Hanania
Born in 1980. Lives and works in Paris.
Piero Gilardi
Born in 1942. Lives and works in Turin.
Guerrilla girls
Group of anonymous artists founded in 1985 in New York.
Anna López Luna
Born in 1983. Lives and works in Paris.
Vincent Malassis
Born in 1979. Lives and works in Rennes, Brest and Charleroi.
Randa Maroufi
Born in 1987. Lives and works in Paris.
Anita Molinero
Born in 1953. Lives and works in Paris.
Delphine Reist
Born in 1970. Lives and works in Genève.
Lucy Skaer
Born in 1975. Lives and woks in Londres and Glasgow.
Anna Solal
Born in 1988. Lives and works in Paris and Marseille.
Lucie Stahl
Born in 1977. Lives and works in Berlin and Los Angeles.
Banner at the top of the page: Randa Maroufi, Barbès, from the series Les Intruses, 2019 (detail) © Adagp, Paris
Images in the carousel: Piero Gilardi, O.G.M. Free, 2014 © Piero Gilardi – Courtesy Galerie Michel Rein, Estelle Hanania, Cassandro El Exotico, from the series: Cassandro, Love is a battlefield, 2018 © Estelle Hanania – Photo credit: Estelle Hanania, Vincent Malassis, The Noisy World, 2019 © Vincent Malassis – Photo credit: Malassis Vincent