Slackers
Curated by
Fiona Vilmer
Artists
Fabienne Audéoud
Julie Beaufils
Barbara Bloom
Charlie Boisson
Camille Brée
Marcel Devillers
Sarah Holveck
François Lancien-Guilberteau
Phung-Tien Phan
Ludovic Sauvage
Julie Vayssière
Ana Vega
Xe Xe
Location
Tonus, Paris
Dates
06.10 - 22.10 2023
In the architecture of artist studio, intermediate spaces where life and work are superimposed registers, many promises of reflection, careers and friendships circulate.
Artistic practices inevitably tied to specific situations, economies and times, come together fortuitously in spaces that are more or less conducive to turning into exhibition spaces.
Crossed by Linklater’s Slacker (1990), where the camera follows one character without a clear goal, then drops him or her for another, making way for the next, everyone seems to be going about their business, pursuing the course of their own fetishes, theories and modes of existence.
Where do they go once they’re off-screen?
Slackers is less an attitude than a frame containing immediacy.
What posture, (auto)fiction or place do we desire to inhabit in our own lives?
It’s like every choice or decision you make…
the thing you choose not to do…
fractions off and becomes its own reality, you know…
and just goes on from there forever (1)
The narrative dirfts, filled with dissonance, already atomized by the constraints of the place, the city and, here again, the idiosyncrasies of each individual.
Phenomena of attraction and isolation, infiltration and staging put into tension the beginnings of fictions, trailers, language and image types at the intersection of surfaces.
Fiona Vilmer, October 2023
(1) Extract from Richard Linklater’s opening monologue in Slacker, 1990.
Barbara Bloom, The Diamond Lane, 1981, Digitized, 35mm film,
color, sound, 5:14 min
Julie Beaufils, La cabine (Summer rental), 2023, Oil on canvas,
60×60 cm
Ludovic Sauvage, Small Rain (Moon), 2023 Edited Anime Images,
UV print on wood, wood, varnish, 11,5×11×2,6 cm
Julie Beaufils, Untitled, 2018, Oil on canvas, 30×30 cm
Ludovic Sauvage, Small Rain (Lighter), 2023, Edited Anime Images,
UV print on wood, wood, varnish, 17,5×11,5×2,6 cm
Ludovic Sauvage, Small Rain (Ashtray), 2023, Edited Anime Images,
UV print on wood, wood, varnish, 19×11,5×2,6 cm
Ana Vega, I don’t want to use it everyday (Hey sister), 2018,
Video, 5:26 min.
As part of the video corpus More Present, 2017-2019.
Ana Vega, I don’t want to use it everyday (Hey sister), 2018, Video, 5:26 min.
As part of the video corpus More Present, 2017-2019.
Ana Vega, I don’t want to use it everyday (Hey sister), 2018, Video, 5:26 min.
As part of the video corpus More Present, 2017-2019.
Julie Beaufils, Untitled, 2023, Oil on canvas, 130×130 cm
Ludovic Sauvage, Small Rain (Straw), 2023 Edited Anime Images, UV print on wood, wood, varnish, 17,5×11×2,6 cm
Phung-Tien Phan, Turtle, 2023, Multiplex birch, glue, aluminium
foil, concrete stone, rope, fabric, 80×20×25 cm
Phung-Tien Phan, Desk, 2023, Plywood, cotton fabric, aluminum
foil, insense stick, tesa, cosmetic packaging, cigarettes, chandelier
rhinestone, rope, pen color, duck tape, celluphan, cable ties,
75×45×16 cm
Phung-Tien Phan, Model 1, 2023, MDF, glue, tiles, silicone,
concrete stone, rope, acrylic fabric, 41×26×36 cm
Julie Vayssière, Garçon de café, 2023, 32 salt and pepper
shakers, tray, graphite, permanent marker, 35×35×11 cm
Julie Vayssière, Lampe, 2023, Lamp, tissue paper, bubble wrap,
adhesive tape, 45×40 cm (diam)
Julie Vayssière, Untitled (série doudounes et pyjamas), 2023, Tube of glue, collage, 8×2 cm (diam)
Julie Vayssière, Untitled (série doudounes et pyjamas), 2023, Tube of glue, collage, 8×2 cm (diam)
Marcel Devillers, Home Viewing Device #1, 2023, Aluminum sheet, 360×3,5 cm
Marcel Devillers, Home Viewing Device #1, 2023, Aluminum sheet, 360×3,5 cm
Marcel Devillers, Home Viewing Device #2, 2023, Folding chair,
aluminum sheets, 85×44×7 cm
Camille Brée, BALL! (F), 2023, Softball, tweeter, cable, Sound: Florian Le Prisé, Variable dimension
Camille Brée, BALL! (F), 2023, Softball, tweeter, cable, Sound: Florian Le Prisé, Variable dimension
Camille Brée, BALL! (F), 2023, Softball, tweeter, cable, Sound: Florian Le Prisé, Variable dimension
François Lancien-Guilberteau, I want to believe (a) (b) (c), 2023, Mixed media, 90×60×3 cm
François Lancien-Guilberteau, I want to believe (a), 2023, Mixed media, 90×60×3 cm
François Lancien-Guilberteau, I want to believe (b), 2023, Mixed media, 90×60×3 cm
François Lancien-Guilberteau, I want to believe (c), 2023, Mixed media, 90×60×3 cm
Sarah Holveck, Snoop, 2023, Paper, pen, 65×95 cm
Sarah Holveck, Snoop, 2023, Paper, pen, 65×95 cm
Fabienne Audéoud, Pénis, 2023, Oil on prepared taffeta, 150×130 cm
Fabienne Audéoud, Pénis, 2023, Oil on prepared taffeta, 150×130 cm
Fabienne Audéoud, Double Bed, 2022,
Editing and music Fabienne Audéoud, 5:40 min
Charlie Boisson, Untitled, 2023, Wood, cotton strip, hide glue,
acrylic, varnish, 50×11×10 cm
Xe Xe, Kumbú, 2023, Chicken bones, wire, 220×230 cm
Charlie Boisson, Holding, handling, 2023, Lambda print, 50×69 cm