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Installation view of Oscar Tuazon •An Error, 2010, and Raphael Zarka, Jersey Barrier, 2010. Installation view of Oscar Tuazon •An Error, 2010, and Raphael Zarka, Jersey Barrier, 2010.
Raphael Zarka, Jersey Barrier, 2010. Cement barrier. Courtesy the artist and BAIBAKOV art projects. Photograph by Yuri Palmin, courtesy of BAIBAKOV art projects
Oscar Tuazon • An Error, 2010. Wood, steel, flourescent light. 350 x 700 x 350 cm Courtesy of the artist, BAIBAKOV art projects and Balice Hertling, Paris. Photograph by Yuri Palmin, courtesy of BAIBAKOV art projects.
Oscar Tuazon •An Error, 2010. Wood, steel, flourescent light. 350 x 700 x 350 cm Courtesy of the artist, BAIBAKOV art projects and Balice Hertling, Paris. Photograph by Yuri Palmin, courtesy of BAIBAKOV art projects.
Claire Fontaine, Defend Yourself (Bully BOB), 2010. Bully BOB punching mannequin, wrestling mats, signage. Courtesy of the artist, BAIBAKOV art projects and Chantal Crousel, Paris. Photograph by Yuri Palmin, courtesy of BAIBAKOV art projects.
Film still from Adel Abdessemed, Usine, 2008. Video, 1 min 27 secs. Courtesy David Zwirner.
Film still from Adel Abdessemed, Usine, 2008. Video, 1 min 27 secs. Courtesy David Zwirner
Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille •02:13'08'' Le sacrifice (After Andreï Tarkovski)/ 02:13'47'' Le sacrifice
(After Andreï Tarkovski), 2010.
Oil on Canvas. Diptych, each part 300 x 5 x 200 cm.
Courtesy Galerie Almine Rech.
Cyprien Gaillard, Cairns (131 Allen Street, Dalmarnock, Glasgow, 1965-2007), 2007. C-print on diasec. Courtesy Laura Bartlett.
Installation shots of Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige • WONDER BEIRUT: 18 Postcards of War, 2010. Printed postcards, each 14.8 x 10.5 cm. Courtesy of the artists and BAIBAKOV art projects. Photograph by Yuri Palmin, courtesy of BAIBAKOV art projects.
Installation view of Cyprien Gaillard, Cairns (131 Allen Street, Dalmarnock, Glasgow, 1965-2007), 2007. C-print on diasec. Courtesy Laura Bartlett. Photograph by Yuri Palmin, courtesy of BAIBAKOV art projects.
Cyprien Gaillard, Cairns (12 Riverford Road, Pollokshaws, Glasgow, 1967-2008), 2008. C-print on diasec. Courtesy Alberto Mariani.
Film stills from Cyprien Gaillard, Cities of Gold and Mirrors, 2009. 16mm film, 8 min 58 secs. Courtesy Laura Bartlett.
Film stills from Cyprien Gaillard, Cities of Gold and Mirrors, 2009. 16mm film, 8 min 58 secs. Courtesy Laura Bartlett.
Film stills from Cyprien Gaillard, Cities of Gold and Mirrors, 2009. 16mm film, 8 min 58 secs. Courtesy Laura Bartlett.
Installation view of Wilfrid Almendra, Killed in Action, 2009, and Cyprien Gaillard, Cities of Gold and Mirrors, 2009. Photograph by Yuri Palmin, courtesy of BAIBAKOV art projects.
Wilfrid Almendra • Killed in Action (CSH #27, CAMPBELL and WONG), 2009. Wood, cement, rubber, steel. 100 x 104,5 x 54 cm . Courtesy Bugada & Cargnel.
Wilfrid Almendra • Killed in Action (CSH#24, Archibald QUINCY JONES and Frederick E. EMMONS),
2009. Tiles, steel, reinforced glass, rubber. 142 x 73,5 x 27 cm. Courtesy Bugada & Cargnel.
Wilfrid Almendra • Killed in Action (CSH #26, KILLINGSWORTH, BRADY, SMITH & Associates), 2009. Asphalt, steel, linoleum. 91 x 130 x 16 cm . Courtesy Bugada & Cargnel. Photograph by Yuri Palmin, courtesy of BAIBAKOV art projects.
Latifa Echakhch, Stoning, 2010. Stones, dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist and Kamel Mennour.
Latifa Echakhch, Fantasia (Empty flag, black), 4 walls in a room, 2007. 22 flagpoles. Each 3m long and 5cm in diameter. Courtesy Institut d’art contemporain Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes. Photograph by Yuri Palmin, courtesy of BAIBAKOV art projects.
Installation views of Latifa Echakhch, Fantasia (Empty flag, black), 4 walls in a room and Saadane Afif, Brume, 2007. Photograph by Yuri Palmin, courtesy of BAIBAKOV art projects.
Installation views of Saadane Afif, Brume, 2007. Courtesy Guillaume Houze. Photograph by Yuri Palmin, courtesy of BAIBAKOV art projects.
Installation views of works by Thomas Hirschhorn and Ida Tursic & Wilfrid Mille, The End , 2010. Photograph by Yuri Palmin, courtesy of BAIBAKOV art projects.
Installation views of works by Thomas Hirschhorn. Photograph by Yuri Palmin, courtesy of BAIBAKOV art projects.
Installation views of works by Thomas Hirschhorn. Photograph by Yuri Palmin, courtesy of BAIBAKOV art projects.
Installation views of works by Thomas Hirschhorn. Photograph by Yuri Palmin, courtesy of BAIBAKOV art projects.
Installation views of works by Thomas Hirschhorn and Ida Tursic & Wilfrid Mille, The End , 2010. Photograph by Yuri Palmin, courtesy of BAIBAKOV art projects.
Thomas Hirschhorn •. Meets the Eye, 2010. Multimedia collage, 280 x 209 cm. Courtesy ARNDT Gallery. Photograph by Yuri Palmin, courtesy of BAIBAKOV art projects.
Thomas Hirschhorn •. Perils of Abundance, 2010. Multimedia collage, 280 x 207 cm. Courtesy ARNDT Gallery. Photograph by Yuri Palmin, courtesy of BAIBAKOV art projects.
Thomas Hirschhorn •. Double Deluge, 2010. Multimedia collage, 279 x 205 cm. Courtesy ARNDT Gallery. Photograph by Yuri Palmin, courtesy of BAIBAKOV art projects.
Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille The End, 2010. Oil and silver on canvas, 200 x 300 cm. Courtesy Galerie Almine Rech.
Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille • JANE June-July 1998 P. 80-81 III, 2010. Watercolor on paper, 122 x 160 cm . Courtesy Galerie Almine Rech.
Installation views of Raphael Zarka, Riding Modern Art, 2005, works by Thomas Hirschhorn and Ida Tursic & Wilfrid Mille, The End , 2010. Photograph by Yuri Palmin, courtesy of BAIBAKOV art projects.
Film still from Raphael Zarka, Riding Modern Art, 2005. Video, 3 min, 40 secs. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Michel Rein.
© 2010 BAIBAKOV art projects
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25/07/10
PERPETUAL BATTLES
Perpetual Battles is a group exhibition that considered the creative potential of conflict, engaging artists who actively isolate, investigate, and aggravate the violence underlying the everyday experience of contemporary society. The exhibition featured new works and site-specific commissions by Adel Abdessemed, Saadane Afif, Wilfrid Almendra, Latifa Echakhch, Claire Fontaine, Cyprien Gaillard, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Thomas Hirschhorn, Oscar Tuazon, Ida Tursic and Wilfried Mille, and Raphael Zarka.
In Discipline and Punish (1975), French philosopher Michel Foucault posits that conflict is not something outside of society, which launches an attack; it is something that constitutes the very fabric of society, allowing for the development of new order. Drawing on Foucault’s seminal text, Perpetual Battles acts as an echo room, amplifying the not-so-distant roar of battle, as it resounds in contemporary art and theory. Violence emerges in manifold forms: from philosophical attempts to describe or incite political upheaval, to the “fight clubs” of disenfranchised populations, to war-games that recast conflict as mass-media entertainment.
Perpetual Battles will be complemented by a forthcoming bilingual reader, which surveys the complex philosophical arguments around the issues of violence, beginning with Georges Sorel’s 1908 Reflexions sur la violence, and carrying through to the contemporary debates of Alain Badiou, Etienne Balibar and the Invisible Committee, as selected by Guillaume Garreta, Program Director at the International College of Philosophy (Paris). As a special feature of the reader, philosopher Mathieu Potte-Bonneville, author of After Foucault, will contribute a commissioned article exploring the evolution of the “distant roar of battle” within Foucault’s writing and its resonance within the broader French philosophical landscape.
The May 27th opening event featured a performance by Koudlam.
Perpetual Battles was a featured exhibition of the Year of France in Russia 2010.
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