Socles peu communs - Uncommon Bases / Exhibition
Galerie Fernand Léger, Ivry, 2025

Exhibition views
An overview in a few images

  • The Weighing of Souls, April 2025, ammunition lent by Jean-Philippe Stoll
    The Weighing of Souls, April 2025, ammunition lent by Jean-Philippe Stoll
  • The Thinker on the pedestal/seat Tribute to Work, facing the slide show, at the opening on April 5, 2025, photo: Jason Karaïndros
    The Thinker on the pedestal/seat Tribute to Work, facing the slide show, at the opening on April 5, 2025, photo: Jason Karaïndros
  • Flower Power : Make Love Not War, Lara Croft, loan by Stephane Da Fonseca, Déméval enterprise, Ivry
    Flower Power : Make Love Not War, Lara Croft, loan by Stephane Da Fonseca, Déméval enterprise, Ivry
  • Pedestal = sculpture
    Pedestal = sculpture
  • Pedestal = seat
    Pedestal = seat
  • Red pedestal on green grass, Ivry, April 2025
    Red pedestal on green grass, Ivry, April 2025

On the plinth
April-May 2025, in the “photo studio” of the exhibition

  • April 5, 2025, photo: Marie-Pierre Dieterlé
    April 5, 2025, photo: Marie-Pierre Dieterlé
  • Martine Feipel as Joan of Arc, April 8, 2025
    Martine Feipel as Joan of Arc, April 8, 2025
  • Shellfish gathering, April 26, 2025
    Shellfish gathering, April 26, 2025
  • Winda Kelly, May 20, 2025
    Winda Kelly, May 20, 2025
  • Workshop with children, led by Mathilde and Marius, Mai 7, 2025
    Workshop with children, led by Mathilde and Marius, Mai 7, 2025
  • Workshop with children, led by Mathilde and Jean-Michel, Mai 14, 2025
    Workshop with children, led by Mathilde and Jean-Michel, Mai 14, 2025

Some of the youngsters’ suggestions

  • Photo session with architecture students of ENSAPLV, May 21, 2025
    Photo session with architecture students of ENSAPLV, May 21, 2025

The artist would like to warmly thank all the people and institutions without whom this project could not have moved forward and this exhibition would never have seen the light of day:

The Galerie Fernand Léger team, support throughout this project
The two exhibition fitters, Edouard and Antoine, for their efficiency and sensitivity
The Municipal Archives of Ivry-sur-Seine
All participants in the different proposals
The artists of TAP#3
The participants of the Art in Context workshop, Académie de Créteil, November 2023
Charles Piquion and Philippe Jaeglé for their interpretation of the worker and Voltaire
Mirela Popa
Jean-François Rodier and the APAI (Association for the Protection of Ivry Bees) for their warm welcome and the educational hive
Cécile Rusterholz
Leonor Nuridsany who writes for the catalogue
Stephane Da Fonseca, Déméval company, for the loan of Lara Croft
Jean-Philippe Stoll for the loan of ammunition and boxes
CPS, Paris, for cleaning the chair
Jason Karaindros
And all friends from near and far, thank you!

“No man is an island."


Voir aussi
#Installations #Memory #Politics #Performances #Photography #Paradise Lost #Objects, assemblages #Shadows, Projections #Public Space #Collaborations #Words #Video #Who’s Who ?