• Sophie Podolski: The Country Where Everything Is Permitted
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    SATURDAY, JULY 7 FROM 3 TO 7 P.M.

    Exhibition closing
    The launch of the first mono­graph ded­i­cated to Sophie Podolski pub­lished by WIELS and Mercatorfonds, fea­turing orig­inal essays by Lars Bang Larsen, Jean- Philippe Convert, Caroline Dumalin, Chris Kraus and Erik Thys will take place in October at Villa Vassilieff.

    SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 4PM-9PM

    Opening of the exhibition "Sophie Podolski: The Country Where Everything Is Permitted"

    5pm - Where to reside imbibed deprived but freed
    Conversation with Caroline Dumalin (curator of the exhi­bi­tion, WIELS) and Virginie Bobin (head of pro­grams, Villa Vassilieff)
    7pm-9pm - Cocktail &DJ set
    With PAM (Antinote / Okonkole Y Trompa)

    SATURDAY, MAY 19 AT 3 P.M.

    Conversation about Sophie Podolski’s recep­tion in the magazines Tel Quel and Luna-Park
    With Caroline Dumalin, Rachel Stella and guests

    « Writing Is A Living Thing »
    Reception and resur­gence of Sophie Podolski

    With Caroline Dumalin (curator of the exhi­bi­tion / WIELS), Rachel Stella (art critic) and Vanessa Desclaux (curator and art critic, teacher at Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Dijon)

    3pm

    It has taken 40 years for the visual work of Sophie Podolski to come to our atten­tion. How come, and why now? Writing this after the show at WIELS in Brussels already hap­pened, where it received remark­able echoes, sev­eral pos­sible answers have come forth.

    While writing and drawing were inex­tri­cably inter­twined for Sophie Podolski, during her life­time she was mostly seen as a poet. The pub­li­ca­tion of Le pays où tout est per­mis­gar­nered her an appre­ci­a­tion among lit­erary cir­cles in Brussels and Paris. Already in 1973, an extract from the book was included in Tel Quel, a promi­nent magazine of the Parisian intel­lec­tual avant-garde, through the agency of Dominique Rolin. That same year, a typeset ver­sion was edited by Pierre Belfond, with a preface by Tel Queleditor and nov­elist Philippe Sollers. Art his­to­rian and­pub­lisher Marc Dachy obtained the manuscript to reissue her book in 1979, and pub­lished her draw­ings and texts reg­u­larly in his magazine Luna-Park. Her work has rarely been exhib­ited. One
    notable example is the group exhi­bi­tion­Gra­phiesin 1977, where Dachy con­tex­u­al­ized her writing exper­i­ments alongside those of Christian Dotremont, Brion Gysin and Pierre Guyotat.

    PROGRAMME

    From 3pm to 4:30pm

    Caroline Dumalin (curator of the exhi­bi­tion / WIELS) will recount the appear­ances of Sophie Podolski’s visual works until its con­tem­po­rary resur­gence (a word that she prefers to the word “re­dis­covery”). Rachel Stella will come back to the his­tor­ical and intel­lec­tual con­text of the magazines Tel Quel and Luna-Park in order to cap­ture the glances that may have been made on the work of Sophie Podolski in the 70s. Then, Vanessa Desclaux, curator and teacher at the National Art School of Dijon, will mod­erate a dis­cus­sion between Caroline Dumalin, Rachel Stella and the assis­tance.

    From 4:30 to 6pm

    The con­ver­sa­tion will then con­tinue around a glass at the bar of the Villa Vassilieff with stu­dents of the National Art School of Dijon and National Art School of Lyon that will pre­sent the results a two-days work­shop cen­tred on the exhi­bi­tion. They will be accom­pa­nied by Vanessa Desclaux et Elsa Boyer (writer, teacher at the Art School of Lyon). 

    With Paul Bourdoncle, Théo Chikhi, Nina Dubois, Patricia Lino Dias, Manon Montravers, Flore Mycek, Agnès Quenardel, Guillaume Seyller, Tina Wecker et Gaspar Willmann.

    * Tel Quel is a French avant-garde lit­er­aryre­view, founded in 1960 in Paris by Éditions du Seuil by sev­eral young authors gath­ered around Jean-Edern Hallier and Philippe Sollers. The aim of the journal was to reflect the ree­val­u­a­tion by the avant-garde of the clas­sics of the his­tory of lit­er­a­ture. Despite its lit­erary ori­en­ta­tion, the journal’s posi­tions are very char­ac­ter­istic of the move­ments of ideas in the 1960s and 1970s, notably the dis­played Maoism of some of its mem­bers.

    Source : Wikipedia

    **The art his­to­rian Marc Dachy is a Dada spe­cialist and founder in 1975 of the magazine Luna-Park, devoted to lit­erary and plastic avant-gardes, where he pub­lished texts by Antonin Artaud, Samuel Beckett, John Cage ... The magazine stops in 1982 and reap­pears from 2003 to 2009.

    Source : Connaissance des Arts