Christophe Gallois
MITIM
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MITIM
As part of the exhibition cycle Neutre intense, January - December 2008
Chloé Dugit-Gros, Jason Dodge, Morgan Fisher, Ryan Gander, Mario Garcia Torres,
John McCracken, Laurent Montaron
Maison populaire, Montreuil
January 9 – February 29, 2008
Curator: Christophe Gallois
The three exhibitions gathered under the title Neutre intense aims to explore the possibility of a paradox: the intensity of the neutral. This idea refers to a series of lectures, The Neutral, given by Roland Barthes in 1978. “For me, the neutral doesn’t refer to ‘impressions’ of grayness, of ‘neutrality,’ of indifference. The neutral – my neutral – can refer to intense, strong, unprecedented states”: the tension galvanized by Barthes in his lectures seems to echo a twofold dynamic, seen in the practice of many artists, between, on one hand, modes of formal and semantic reduction and, on the other, the complexity and plurality of meanings that this reduction entails.
Events in the context of the exhibition:
January 23, 8:30pm
Rencontre avec Thomas Clerc : L'Intensité du neutre
→ Listen (fr)
February 20, 8:30pm
Listening seance: Dominique Petitgand