from march 4 to may 28 2023
18 rue de la Calade — Arles
Beyond a specific discipline, Gilles conveys multiple expressions in whic the fabric of stories is woven, mixed, imprinted with emotions, aiming totranscribe the elegance of the moment, borne by a constant flow of inner music. As a dancer, he carries his energy towards an elsewhere, without borders, while being framed by the grid of the world, in particular through his architectural studies. Dance offers intervals like the dial of time and space and allows to adjust the vital flow that links beings and makes things feel. Gilles provokes this fleeting and succinct space-time to make it light. The exhibition Space between things is a retrospective of Gilles Massot's work, whose common thread is the history of the image, its manufacture and reproduction. The exhibition is above all a question about the multiple connections that make up Gilles Massot's multidisciplinary work, bringing together traces of a large part of his life as an artist and a traveling historian. The sequences in the exhibition refer to the process that underlies his work; a process that has seen him make connections between narratives, techniques, occurrences and parts of the world over the years. The selection of works engages as a deciphering of the artist's ideas and reflections on our relationship to the image, to photography and to creation; time and space, two themes at the heart of his quest. A pioneering look at the mixing of mediums, through theory, Gilles reveals a complex white space, an image in the making or already past and thus invisible. He offers us a rewriting of the history of photography, from the beginnings of one of the first photographic reporters, Jules Itier, to the mysteries of the pyramids of Egypt. The whole confronts globalization with the diversity and multiplication of uses.
Curator Florent BASILETTI
18 rue de la Calade — Arles
Beyond a specific discipline, Gilles conveys multiple expressions in whic the fabric of stories is woven, mixed, imprinted with emotions, aiming totranscribe the elegance of the moment, borne by a constant flow of inner music. As a dancer, he carries his energy towards an elsewhere, without borders, while being framed by the grid of the world, in particular through his architectural studies. Dance offers intervals like the dial of time and space and allows to adjust the vital flow that links beings and makes things feel. Gilles provokes this fleeting and succinct space-time to make it light. The exhibition Space between things is a retrospective of Gilles Massot's work, whose common thread is the history of the image, its manufacture and reproduction. The exhibition is above all a question about the multiple connections that make up Gilles Massot's multidisciplinary work, bringing together traces of a large part of his life as an artist and a traveling historian. The sequences in the exhibition refer to the process that underlies his work; a process that has seen him make connections between narratives, techniques, occurrences and parts of the world over the years. The selection of works engages as a deciphering of the artist's ideas and reflections on our relationship to the image, to photography and to creation; time and space, two themes at the heart of his quest. A pioneering look at the mixing of mediums, through theory, Gilles reveals a complex white space, an image in the making or already past and thus invisible. He offers us a rewriting of the history of photography, from the beginnings of one of the first photographic reporters, Jules Itier, to the mysteries of the pyramids of Egypt. The whole confronts globalization with the diversity and multiplication of uses.
Curator Florent BASILETTI
GILLES MASSOT
ARTIST, THEORIST, HISTORIAN
His visual arts practice deals more specifically with the theory of photography and its relationship to time and space. He teaches at LASALLE - College of the Arts in Singapore. He has received the French cultural distinction of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. After studying architecture and photography in Marseille, he moved to Singapore in 1981. His participation in the local art scene saw him involved in a series of art events. In the 1990s, he traveled extensively throughout Asia and Europe, a lifestyle that resulted in over fifty exhibitions and an extensive body of editorial work published in various magazines in Asia and Europe. In 2010, he is developing a research on Jules Itier who made the first daguerreotypes of China, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Singapore and Vietnam in 1844-45. Under the name of his alter ego Professor Ma, he is also pursuing a research on the parallels and crossings between the respective histories of photography and quantum mechanics.
EVENT
OPENING ON FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 2023 AT 7PM
To replay Art of Parties, the foundation proposes a series of party happenings with the archives of the 90's parties in Singapore. Magical nights until 2am.
FIRE AND ICE - FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 2023
MAGIC NIGHT - SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 2023
EXOTIC CABARET - FRIDAY, MAY 19, 2023
WHITE PARTY - SATURDAY, MAY 27, 2023
rsvp e.knapp@mrofoundation.org
Guided tour program to come.
