Ex Change, 1999
“Ex Change” is the first exhibition curated by Larys Frogier as the new Director of La Criée centre for contemporrary arts, Rennes, France.
“Ex Change” gathers a group of international artists for celebrating
passage and transformation,
presence and disappearance,
private memory and collective histories,
individual and social bodies.
Beyond identities, “Ex Change” unfolds different practices (photography, performance, video, installation) to infiltrate the contemporary art center, not only as an institutional critique, but with the engagement/contribution of the visitor in making the work as well as infusing a personal and political experience of the architecture, the urban and social space, and the intimacy of the body.
Exhibition view "Ex-Change", La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes, 1999. Photo : Hervé Beurel.
Booklet of the exhibition "Ex-Change", La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes, 1999.
Christelle Familiari, "Demande de suçons", 1999, performance, photographies. Exhibition view "Ex-Change", La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes, 1999. Photo : Hervé Beurel
Entrance: Felix Gonzalez-Torres, "Untitled" (Beginning), 1994, plastic beads, metal rod, dimensions vary with installation. Ground and ceiling installation: Simone Decker, "Pavillon de chasse" (Hunting Pavilion), 1999, ephemeral structure, double-sided transparent adhesive
300 x 400 x 500 cm, visitors messages. Exhibition view "Ex-Change", La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes, 1999. Photo : Hervé Beurel.
Entrance: Felix Gonzalez-Torres, "Untitled" (Beginning), 1994, plastic beads, metal rod, dimensions vary with installation. Ground and ceiling installation: Simone Decker, "Pavillon de chasse" (Hunting Pavilion), 1999, ephemeral structure, double-sided transparent adhesive
300 x 400 x 500 cm, visitors messages. Exhibition view "Ex-Change", La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes, 1999. Photo : Hervé Beurel.
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, "Untitled" (Lover Boys), 1991, blue and white candies, individually wrapped in cellophane, dimension vary with installation, ideal weight: 161 kg. Exhibition view "Ex-Change", La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes, 1999. Photo : Hervé Beurel.
Olivier Dollinger, "Burns", performance, video, 20mn. Exhibition view "Ex-Change", La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes, 1999. Photo: Hervé Beurel.
Bill Jacobson, "Interim Portrait #384", 1992 chromogenic print 36 x 30 inches. Exhibition view "Ex-Change", La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes, 1999.
Bill Jacobson, "Interim Portrait #376", 1992 chromogenic print 36 x 30 inches. Exhibition view "Ex-Change", La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes, 1999.
Christelle Familiari, "Demande de suçons", 1999, chromogenic photograph on Dibond, 40 x 60 cm. Collection FRAC Haute-Normandie. Photo : Benoît Lecarpentier. Exhibition view "Ex-Change", La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes, 1999.
Christelle Familiari, "Demande de suçons", 1999, chromogenic photograph on Dibond, 40 x 60 cm. Collection FRAC Haute-Normandie. Photo : Benoît Lecarpentier. Exhibition view "Ex-Change", La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes, 1999.
Gillian Wearing, "I'm desperate", 1992-93, part the series "Signs that Say What You Want Them To Say and Not Signs that Say What Someone Else Wants You To Say", chromogenic print, on paper. Frame: 1325 × 925 × 45 mm, support: 1190 × 790 mm. Collection Tate Gallery, London.
Credits
Curated by Larys Frogier
Produced by La Criée centre d'art contemporain