Reclaim the earth season at the Palais de Tokyo - Our pictures

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Published by Laurent de Sortiraparis · Photos by Laurent de Sortiraparis · Published on April 15, 2022 at 04:41 p.m.
From April 15 to September 4, 2022, the Palais de Tokyo displays a new season called “Reclaim the earth”. A season including several exhibitions and artists such as Hélène Bertin, César Chevalier, Mimosa Echard as well as Laura Henno.

Reclaim the earth! A genuine cry for rallying inspired by the first collection of eco-feminist texts, Reclaim the Earth: Women Speak Out for Life on Earth… A realization also applying to the Palais de Tokyo as it devotes its new season to ecofeminist and social art from April 15 to September 4, 2022.

This is an assessment especially made by the collective exhibition scientific advisor: “Bringing ecology, feminism, socialism and indigenous politics together means giving up the eurocentric lens for a genuinely global oneAriel Salleh explains in her book Ecofeminism as Politics: Nature, Marx and the Postmodern, an idea transposed here for this exhibition.

Therefore, the season follows “artists who seek to develop new connections with nature, the living world and the environment”. The idea? Thinking the world “beyond nature and culture”.

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In all, 14 artists from different generations and origins, proposing their works on different issues like “relationships between the body and the earth, our primordial relationship to the ground and everything it bears, the disappearance of some species, the transmission of native tales and skills, gleanings and collect, or even social justice and collective healing”.

The goal: “to become aware that we are not “before a landscape” or “on the earth”, but rather that we are part of them”. Reclaiming the earth is “engaging with, thinking through and feeling the ramifications of alternative conceptions of nature”. Scouring the earth both figuratively and literally, and transforming “buried roots into open roots, (re)shining a light on forgotten, silenced tales or inventing some”.

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As for the exhibitions displayed all along the season, they are:

  • Couper le vent en troisHélène Bertin, César Chevalier

This exhibition takes visitors to the research of the two artists about agriculture, acting as passers of “know-how and respect given to the viticultural practice”.

  • Gue Ouryao! Pourquoi t’as peur!Laura Henno

Laura Henno’s own exhibition provides visitors with three video installations, as well as photographs outlining the “moving contours of people’s transitory situations living outside the society”.

  • SporalMimosa Echard

This exhibition – genuine exclusive project – revolves around mushrooms and myxomycetes (one-of-a-kind monocellular bodies because of the place they have in life sciences and the ecologic and futurist imaginary). The idea: wondering about “the special relationships they suggest about links between human being, nature and the environment”. Note to continue the experience, Mimosa Echard also came up with a video game available when the time has come on this link, and you can enjoy within the exhibition by scanning a QR code on one of the works.

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  • Nous étions mille sous la tableAïcha Snoussi

The Tunisian artist presents her very first own exhibition within the Palais de Tokyo, granting her the occasion to “deploy her tentacular practice emerging from drawing to include sculpture, installation and sound creation”.

  • A Roof for SilenceHala Wardé, in partnership with Etel Adnan, supported by Alain Fleischer and Soundwalk Collective

After exhibiting in 2021 at the Venice Biennale, A Roof for Silence, Lebanese pavilion of the biennale created by Hala Wardé, comes to the Palais de Tokyo, echoing this new season.

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  • Les 20 ans du Jardin aux habitant.tantesRobert Milin

Created in 2002 by Robert Milin, this work gathers amateur gardeners around the maintenance of an arable plot set against the Palais de Tokyo. The occasion to study “the collaborative process and celebrate evolution through a program of meetings, a publication and exhibition of new works by Robert Milin devoted to garden”.

  • Le Chant des AstresEva Medin

The artist studies the relationship between the history of art, speculative science-fiction sayings, animist believes and power of the sublime by generating “immersive environments” showing “the realization of a change of era and status”.

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Enjoy!

Practical information

Dates and Opening Time
From April 15, 2022 to September 4, 2022

× Approximate opening times: to confirm opening times, please contact the establishment.

    Location

    13, avenue du président Wilson
    75116 Paris 16

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    Metro line 9 "Iéna" or "Alma-Marceau" station

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    Tarif réduit: €6
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