Emmanuelle Lainé / FNAGP residency 2016

Emmanuelle Lainé
Incremental Self
In res­i­dency from October 17 to 22, 2016

Exhibition at Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research in 2017. More info here.

« Beneath the surface are the same internal organs as everyone else » (2016), vue d’exposition à la Villa Arson

Born in Paris in 1973 and grad­u­ated from the National School of Fine Arts (ENSBA) in Paris, Emmanuelle Lainé lives and works between Brussels and Marseille. Her art prac­tice entails mon­u­mental in-situ intaslla­tions that break down the exhi­bi­tion through pho­tographs mounting.

Presented during the Groupe Mobile exhi­bi­tion (2016) at Villa Vassilieff, Une méthode des lieux plays with this illu­sion­nist dis­rup­tion. By playing on optical dis­tor­tion and assem­bling pho­tographs to scale, the space of the exhi­bi­tion becomes adja­cent to the studio space. The space of Villa Vassilieff is thus dis­torsted, reassem­bled, reversed, split between view­points. Emmanuelle Lainé asserts here a prac­tice focused on the explo­ration of the pho­to­graphic treat­ment of the mind, a mind in per­petual state of elab­o­ra­tion.

Drawing on this expe­ri­ence, the artist is trying to expand on the decom­par­ti­men­tal­iza­tion of the exhi­bi­tion space while con­sid­ering the role of the audi­ence and its posi­tion as a « trigger ». Her new pro­ject, Incremental Self, will take the form of a doc­u­men­tary film. In Incremental Self, the camera strides across mul­tiple sites that are set in one another, extend each other : the flea market in Marseille, the Maison Nationale des Artistes (a retire­ment house run by the FNAGP in the Parisian suburb of Nogent-sur-Marne), the Smith-Lesouëf library at the FNAGP in Nogent-sur-Marne, Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research. This stroll will lead to encoun­ters and inter­views with the users, by-standers and other sub­jec­tiv­i­ties inhab­iting those spaces, all linked to the artistic cre­a­tion pro­cess. The artist intends to shed light on a coun­scious­ness grap­pling with a sen­si­tive, social, eco­nomic and sym­bolic space.

A first research period will take place at the dif­ferent sites of the FNAGP in Nogent-sur-Marne from October 17 to 22: Smith-Lesouëf library, the Maison Nationale des Artistes, and the park. The Smith-Lesouëf library sus­tains an inti­mate and time­less atmo­sphere with its old wood­work panels, and its hetero­ge­neous cat­a­logue of objects including books of art, magazines, travel guides, detec­tive novel, and also its ancient masks replicas, stacked archive boxes, old easels. The Maison Nationale des Artistes is a retire­ment home for artists, that has devel­opped a cul­tural and artistic pro­gram along with a painting and drawing academy, exhi­bi­tions, meet­ings, con­fer­ences and even con­certs. These activ­i­ties are opened to both the res­i­dents and the external public as a mean to bond across gen­er­a­tions. Again, Emmanuelle Lainé intends to open up the space of this excep­tionnal site, which is for the most part for­bidden to the public. She will examine the loca­tion, gather and col­lect words and mem­o­ries of the inhab­i­tants. This foray will be the occa­sion to engage with the rela­tions and dia­logues that weave ties between objects, inhab­i­tants and achi­tec­tural ele­ments that co-exist in this sin­gular space.

A second research period will occur at Bétonsalon – Center for art and research. The art center will invite Emmanuelle Lainé within its walls during the ren­o­va­tion and the reor­gar­niza­tion of its exhi­bi­tion space. The artist will record this work, taking advan­tage of the inster­tice opened in-between exhi­bi­tions. Emmanuelle Lainé thus hopes to fuel her reflexion around the dimen­sions and plans that con­sti­tute the exhi­bi­tion space for the artist as much as for the art­work and the public.

Finally, Emmanuelle Lainé will focus on the flea market in Marseille, the locus of objects ree­val­u­a­tion, objects that have already been pos­sessed and used, objects in tran­si­tion from one arrange­ment to another, from one con­struc­tion of Self to the other.

Emmanuelle Lainé’s film shooting at la Maison Nationale des Artistes, in the framework of her FNAGP residency, October 2016.
Emmanuelle Lainé’s film shooting at la Maison Nationale des Artistes, in the framework of her FNAGP residency, October 2016.
Emmanuelle Lainé’s film shooting at la Maison Nationale des Artistes, in the framework of her FNAGP residency, October 2016.
Emmanuelle Lainé’s film shooting at la Maison Nationale des Artistes, in the framework of her FNAGP residency, October 2016.