Opening
night
Pot au Rose - Garance Bonotto (Performance)
Eurêka, c'est presque le titre - Marie-Caroline Hominal (Dance)
Homo Idiome - Fanny Adler & Vincent Madame (Performance)
Guided tour of the Histoires Vraies exhibition - Frank Lamy (Exhibition)
September 14 — Starting at 6:30 p.m.
MAC VAL
For the opening of the 16th edition of the festival, join us for a festive evening of exhibition, performances and music.
© Anne-Frédérique Fer
Guided tour for the Histoires Vraies exhibition by Frank Lamy
Everything is fiction and reality is a set of superpositions, layer on layer, interwoven with sundry stories. Since 2005, MAC VAL has explored continuously the construction of the Subject across their temporary exhibitions. This time, “Histoires Vraies” focuses less on the effects of the toing and froing between art and the world proposing parallel realities through works of forty artists from different generations.
After beginning his career as art critic, Frank Lamy curates temporary exhibitions for MAC VAL since its opening in 2005. In his projects, he brings a critical, political and historical point of view associated with his research as well as the connection he makes between several fields of thinking. His collective exhibitions become a media on its own, an alternative tool to understand the contemporary world.
General curator: Nicolas Surlapierre / Exhibition curator: Frank Lamy, assisted by Julien Blanpied / Partners: Beaux-Arts Magazine, Le Quotidien de l’Art, Les Inrockuptibles, Libération, Paris Première, Radio Nova, Slash.
© Arthur Crestani
Garance Bonotto - Pot au Rose
Pot au Rose is a solo performance by Garance Bonotto. Under her drag alter-ego Cuntessa Pinkessa, she unravels the murky zones of “femininity” while taking a tender and lucid look at pop culture, the origin of these contemporary mythologies. Pinkessa joyfully seizes the script and reclaims these alienating or emancipatory images that nurture her quest to find the truth.
After studying social sciences, Garance Bonotto turns to dramatic arts. In 2018, she founded the company 1% artistique with Mona Abousaïd. She writes and directs Bimbo Estate et Phallus Stories. Her next creation, Pink Machine, will premiere in the CDN de Rouen in October 2023. She uses different media demonstrating her thinking about genre and pop culture.
Supoort: Le Point Ephémère (Paris), Parcours Regard (Normandy), CDN de Normandie-Rouen.
© Ted Anatassian
Marie-Caroline Hominal - Eurêka, c'est presque le titre
On a round silver stage, Marie-Caroline Hominal embodies all kinds of fantasies: witch on broom, tiger, Lewis Hamilton, chess-playing John Cages, living geometric forms, fictional objects. Metamorphosis in continuity. Different sketches form an assembly of heterogeneous figures: in Eurêka, c’est presque le titre, the artist is inspired by the pop culture, cartoons, folklores, and news. And the round silver stage becomes a tragi-comical carrousel.
Marie-Caroline Hominal lives and works in Geneva. She received her dance education at the Schweizerische Ballettberufschule (ZHDK TanzAkademie) in Zurich and at the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance in London, where she joined the National Youth Dance Company. Her personal research begins in 2002 around video work, then shifts more decisively towards choreography from 2008 with the solo Fly Girl. Today, her artistic pratice includes performance, choreography, drawing and video.
Concept, choreography, stage design, performance : Marie-Caroline Hominal / Commission by Museum Tinguely (Bâle), 2021.
In association with Onda
In association with Centre culturel suisse. On Tour à Paris
© Arnaud Rodriguez
Fanny Adler & Vincent Madame - Homo Idiome
Homo Idiome is a series of classified ads in the form of a hypnotic and techno soundtrack. Created by Fanny Adler et Vincent Madame in 2012, this duo mix electronic accents and gimmicks from the 80s with homoerotic words and poems about rut, dog, waiting, hope or encounter that we could read in the French gay magazine Gai Pied from the end of the 70s.
Fanny Adler and Vincent Madame live and work in Ivry-sur-Seine. Together or in solo, they have created many vocal, sound and/or musical performances. Their motifs come from literature such as Pierre Giquel, Henri Michaux, Bernard-Marie Koltès, Apollinaire, Jean Genet, pop culture and their own writings.