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"PAST FUTURES" A GROUP EXHIBITION AT MAISON Guerlain PARIS PART OF FIAC’S PARCOURS PRIVÉ

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Past Futures

Exhibition from 19 October until 9 November 2018

Private viewing

Wednesday 17 October 2018 from 7-11pm

Maison Guerlain

68 avenue des Champs-Elysées 75008 Paris


Main image  : CHARLOTTE CHARBONNEL – Petit colosse (Payne's grey) n°4, 2015. © Backslash.

Image above : MEHDI MEDDACI - La barque, 2013. Cycle Les yeux tournent autour du soleil.  HD Video 19’20 on repeat. Courtesy of Galerie Odile Ouizeman, Paris. © Mehdi Meddaci.

 

For the 12th consecutive year, Guerlain is once again taking part in FIAC’s Parcours Privé and marking the occasion by presenting the group exhibition Past Futures, which can be discovered at the Maison Guerlain, 68 avenue des Champs-Élysées. 

A partner of the International Contemporary Art Fair (FIAC) since 2006, Guerlain offers a prestigious showcase for internationally renowned artists at each new event and shines a light on new talent.

From 19 October to 9 November 2018, the Past Futures exhibition assembles some twenty works chosen by curator Caroline Messensee.

Past Futures offers a journey on three levels through multiple worlds – installations, videos, photos, drawings, paintings, interactive objects, etc. – bringing together young creative figures and established artists, such as Christian Boltanski, Jean-Michel Alberola, Arotin & Serghei, Charlotte Charbonnel, Jan Fabre, Fabrice Hyber, Mehdi Meddaci, Albertine Meunier and Claire Morgan.

Through intimate accounts, reconstructed memories and image-rich predictions, the exhibition’s artistic path asks questions about concepts of temporality and invites the public into sometimes elusive space-time dimensions.

The Past Futures exhibition addresses the major themes of time, sharing and legacy, which are strong Guerlain values.

190 years! This is also an opportunity to pay tribute to the artists who have largely inspired the world of Guerlain throughout its evolution. Through commissions, exhibitions, collections, collaborations and encounters, Guerlain has been fully committed since it was founded in 1828 to promoting creative talent and forging special links with the contemporary arts scene.

Under the title Past Futures, the artists take on a burning hot topic, symbolised in particular by the transition from the analogue to the digital era or, in other words, from the real to the virtual world. Experienced or imagined? Memory or story? Many artists study the similarity between loss of memory and loss of identity or the way in which individual memory is created through the intermediary of collective memory…

Accordingly, our personal memory is said to allow us to write the story of our past and paint our own portrait, expressing both the imaginary and the real. Then where are we when it comes to legacy, traces, heritage? Philosophy has always been interested in this question, just like the visual artists of our time. 

This new exhibition from Guerlain attempts once again to tackle an essential question, without claiming to have found the answers, but offering a variety of approaches commensurate to the vastness of the subject.

Caroline Messensee, exhibition curator

 


Main image  : CHARLOTTE CHARBONNEL – Petit colosse (Payne's grey) n°4, 2015. © Backslash.

Image above : MEHDI MEDDACI - La barque, 2013. Cycle Les yeux tournent autour du soleil.  HD Video 19’20 on repeat. Courtesy of Galerie Odile Ouizeman, Paris. © Mehdi Meddaci.

 

About

Past Futures

Exhibition from 19 October until 9 November 2018

Private viewing

Wednesday 17 October 2018 from 7-11pm

Maison Guerlain

68 avenue des Champs-Elysées 75008 Paris

Guerlain