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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



  • Opinion
    [ENSBA] After the letter “For an open school” 

    The viewpoint of a signatory of the letter “For an open school” The appointment of Jean de Loisy as director of the École nationale supérieure des beaux- arts de Paris reflects the crisis of representation that affects our institutions and demonstrates, once again, that the absence of consultation and the use of authoritarianism are now [ENSBA] After the letter “For an open school” 


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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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  • Critiques
    [YELLOW VESTS] For an ethics of the movement representations

    While in France thousands of people have been protesting for several months for more dignity and tax justice, occupying roundabouts, being gassed and mutilated during demonstrations, being arrested, killed and dragged to court, some artists and curators find it opportune to represent and display the “Yellow Vests”.  It is therefore urgent to question the difficulties [YELLOW VESTS] For an ethics of the movement representations


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  • Brèves
    La Coupure #2

    La Coupure is releasing its second edition on the street walls in Paris since April 2019.La Coupure is an initiative born in 2018 to denounce specific abuses of power within art institutions (art centres, museums, galleries, art schools…) and to reveal – with a touch of humour – some of the issues that hegemonic cultural La Coupure #2


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