Artists : Åbäke (UK/FR/SW), Jasper Coppes (NL), Jeanne Gillard et Nicolas Rivet (FR), Fabio Kacero (ARG), Luciana Lamothe (ARG), Dalibor Martinis (HR), Axel Straschnoy (ARG), Charlotte York (USA)
 
Curators : Marie Frampier and Javier Villa
 
Performance by Åbäke : Saturday, July 6th 2013
Axel Straschnoy‘s Conference : Notes on the double agent : James Jesus Angleton : Saturday, July 6th 2013 at 5pm
 
Broadcast daily at 11am from the movie “Un jour sans fin” by Harold Ramis.
 
“Historico-vagabond” offers instant rewriting of history through the visionary thinking of Jose Noriega.
 
He is an Argentine theorist who settled in the United States in the early twentieth century; a friend of Sigmund Freud and his nephew Edward Bernays, Noriega had realized early on that conflicting accounts could arise from a single theory. He decided to falsify history to create a better world and make people happy, willingly or unwillingly. He organized sessions of individual and collective hypnosis during which he could change traumas into happy memories, influence the future by revisiting the past, and rethink the present with regard to the future.
 
José Noriega’s mind is the theoretical framework of the exhibition; a section of archival material is dedicated to him. The artists in the show are interested in history and its renewal; they question the methods of infiltration and ideals. Luciana Lamothe, Jasper Coppes and Charlotte York infiltrate the secret treasures of history while Jeanne Gillard and Nicolas Rivet present a recontextualized version of soap sculptures that Bernays had initiated. In But a grainy film, Fabio Kacero modifies his own video by adding to it a very critical prose of a New York Times journalist regarding his work. Dalibor Martinis journeys through time and splits the screen into a set of artistic and ontological questions / answers, while the haunting music of Kraftwerk and repetitive images of Fritz Lang surround the exhibition space and automate some of the visitor’s wandering. During the conferences / performances, Axel Straschnoy will present his current research on secret agents and Åbäke will analyze the life and work of Charlotte York.
 
Consisting of historical documents, reappropriations, and fictional archives, and reconstructions, “Historico-vagabond” seeks to create a temporal paradox. Rewriting history is a potential tool for positive change, rather than looking toward the future, as did the modernist utopias, we change the past in order to magnify the present, by traveling back in time to create a deviation and to then offer an alternate timeline.
 
Soap Sculptures project is supported by Fonds cantonal d’art contemporain, Geneve
 
**supported by Arts Promotion Centre Finland

Un point d‘eau, une oasis en terre urbaine, le mirage d’un rivage
dompté au loin, des palmiers plantureux chahutés par de vives
palettes de couleurs. Sous les cocos, la ville, twistée à l‘humeur
des tropiques pour un art de fortune exalté.
La galerie GVQ vous présente une nouvelle exposition pour
célébrer la fin de saison 2013.
Sous les cocos, les questionnements, le tiraillement, les doutes
demeurent. Quand les artistes expriment les sensations qui les
traversent : sentiments, sensations et sens se mêlent dans
l’esprit de celui qui regarde... jusqu'à trouver, enfouie sous le
sable, sa propre oasis tropicale.