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Soo embarrassed to wake up this morning with all these pictures of French art world selfies with Emmanuel Macron at Élysée. 

Please know that the art community is not comfortable with the current political trend in France. The right wing shift of so many agents from the art world is not representative of all of us here. Let’s not ourselves be humbled by the conservative wave that is spreading across the world right now.

@documentations



  • Critiques
    Burn Manifesto

    This text is a response to the “Extra-Ordinaire Manifesto” whose publication accompanied the opening in Brussels of the Extra-Ordinaire boutique founded by fashion designer and “exoticism lover” Jean-Paul Lespagnard, in October 2019. M. Lespagnard, when I came across your manifesto, I was lost for words. Where do I even begin? I asked myself. But it was Burn Manifesto


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  • Opinion
    GREETINGS

    To all those who wish to strengthen their vertical and authoritarian power they exercise only to serve socially and culturally conservative and reactionary interests, to all spokespersons trying to discredit dissident voices: Do not forget you are dealing with a crowd of ultra-precarized art agents who have nothing more to lose and who, moreover, have no GREETINGS


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  • Opinion
    On the question of anonymity

    Anonymity is a strategy used by many authors to express themselves freely on certain issues deemed subversive by the authorities or a given circle (denunciation of abuses of power, situations of violence emanating from institutions and dominant people, hate speech, compromising relationships, etc.). Anonymity is used to guarantee freedom of speech and minimise the risk On the question of anonymity


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  • Enquêtes
    Interview: Olivia Hernaïz – Art & My Career

    Documentations – Hi Olivia! You designed a board game, which is also an artwork, titled Art & My Career. In this game, you invite us to put ourselves in the shoes of female art workers. You created a game in the style of The Game of Life or Pay Day, to highlight the realities of the very Interview: Olivia Hernaïz – Art & My Career


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