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Event: Turtle
Dates: 12 Oct 2019 - 22 Oct 2019
This fall, from October 12th to the 20th, Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre will be taking part in the festival ‘Bienvenue’ at Cité International des Arts. The gallery will be organizing a ‘Turtle’ — the name given to a series of pop up exhibitions conceptualized by the late artist and film maker Michael H Shamberg. Its name was inspired by a turtle sanctuary that emerged on a stretch of land between two warring zones in Lebanon, at the Israeli border. Shamberg wished to create an ongoing, open, and inclusive mobile sanctuary for artists. After his death, various international galleries, artists, and close friends have periodically replicated and responded to this vision of his. Michael Shamberg lived at the Cité des Arts for six months in 2007 and had hoped to organize a Turtle in this space himself.
Biography
The artist Susan
Hiller’s coined the term ‘paraconceptual’ to describe her exploration of the
unconscious and certain phenomena such as automatic writing, dreams and near
death experience. I too share her view
that the paranormal is often viewed as a de-valued feminine cultural site.
Creating this hybrid pollutes the boundaries. I am also inspired by the artists Frieda Kahlo and Rebecca Horn, whose adversary
bodies inform their work.
My drawings often depict a Dionysian
landscape which seeks to affirm life, whether it is pain, pleasure, suffering or
joy. It is an emotional and instinctive place. By embracing the
chaos and savagery of my story I seek its rational balance.
On a molecular level much of my work resurrects and rebuilds my narrative, in order to make peace with it.
