Artists invited to la Parcelle

To coincide with the opening of la Parcelle, le19M invited the Fetart collective to present their first exhibition as part of a photographic tour of the region, including the Circulation(s) festival at CENTQUATRE-PARIS, an exhibition by Tom Kleinberg at the Bibliothèque Claude Lévi-Strauss in the 19th arrondissement, and an exhibition on the Pont Saint-Ange between the 10th and 18th arrondissements.

Produced as part of a residency with the Seine-Saint-Denis département, Cuong Chau Lê’s work provides a poetic vision of the region and the unique relationship between its inhabitants and nature.

Chau-Cuong Lê is a French photographer born in 1974. He began training in photojournalism in 2003 and in 2008, he discovered fashion and portrait photography. Since 2019, he has participated in several territorial residencies. In 2021, he was one of the winners of the major photographic commission from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and the Ministry of Culture: La France sous leurs yeux.

Wiktoria’s Imprint-Sculptures use stone as a catalyst for experience, aiming to reestablish a relationship between humans and the environment.

Born in Lublin, Poland, in 1991, Wiktoria graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and is currently undertaking a master’s degree at the Beaux-Arts de Paris in Tatiana Trouvé’s studio. She lives and works in Paris/Aubervilliers, where she is a resident of POUSH.

By reflecting their immediate surroundings, these miniature tents, made of two small mirrors placed one against the other, make themselves invisible. Positioned in the nooks and crannies of la Parcelle, only a child could find them. Thibault Lucas invites you to make yourself very small with this site-specific artistic journey.

Born in 1984, Thibault Lucas is a multidisciplinary artist (installation, video, painting) who works at POUSH in Aubervilliers. Thibault Lucas works on neglected “border” sites on the edge of cities. Using simple, minimalist artistic gestures that play on the scale of the site, most often with materials found on site, his work attempts to reveal and question these spaces and their inhabitants.

As part of the cultural weekend with POUSH, the artist Emmanuelle Ducrocq presented a performative, participatory, and evolving work based around the figure of the flag, representing the diversity of Aubervillier’s communities and our desire to be together. Visitors were invited to mix, paint colours, and draw flags to create a large banner that makes up a monumental and impermanent work.

Born in Morocco in 1969, Emmanuelle Ducrocq arrived in France at the age of 17. She began a career in theatre, which she stepped away from to study at the École nationale supérieure de paysage (ENSP) in Versailles. Space, as a partner, material, and stage for creation, gradually became her subject of research, which she explored through residencies in France and abroad by developing a process of working in situ.

For his performance PLAY GROUND, PLAY SKY, partly revisiting Le Voyage d’Hans Keutch’s (a performance staged several times at the Palais de Tokyo and the Grande Halle de la Villette), Mehdi Besnainou invited the audience at la Parcelle to take part in the performance by activating objects of all kinds.

Highlighting environmental and political issues in a whimsical and playful way, these activations were part of a collective effort, in keeping with the themes dear to la Parcelle team and to this first opening weekend.