{"id":1450,"date":"2023-07-14T16:24:46","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T14:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danaepanchaud.net\/?page_id=1450"},"modified":"2024-04-01T18:09:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T16:09:42","slug":"aleix-plademunt-matter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/danaepanchaud.net\/index.php\/exhibitions\/aleix-plademunt-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Aleix Plademunt. Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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2023 | Centre de la photographie Gen\u00e8ve<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Developed over almost a decade, Matter<\/em> is the most ambitious work to date by Catalan artist Aleix Plademunt. It takes as its starting point the word matter<\/em>, which stems from mater<\/em>, the Latin word for mother<\/em>. Matter<\/em> refers to any substance with a physical existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For this project, Aleix Plademunt collaborated with scientific teams from more than 15 countries, including Switzerland, engaged in the study of matter in a multitude of forms. At the junction of the living and the inert, they investigate the particles that make up the fabric of the universe, geologic eons and eras, vanished civilizations and their relics, human anatomy and its robotic or artistic reproductions, among many other fields. Matter is constant, inert and indifferent, and yet it makes life possible. Humans, in response, shape it and study it relentlessly, but we have yet to succeed in unravelling the fundamental mysteries of life. By combining photographs from multiple contexts across the world, the artist offers us a singular and complex tale about the human condition, through the lens of history, biology, physics and geography. He bears witness to human ingenuity, curiosity and creativity, as well as to its violence and its desire for power and control. His photographs weave together the documentary and the intimate, forming an equally personal and political narrative, incisive and acutely beautiful.\u00a0\u00a0 The exhibition at the Centre de la photographie Gen\u00e8ve presents a selection of 154 images and videos from the project, drawn from a corpus of over 600 photographs, in a scenography designed for its exhibition space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

D\u00e9velopp\u00e9 sur pr\u00e8s d\u2019une d\u00e9cennie, Matter<\/em> est le travail le plus ambitieux \u00e0 ce jour de l\u2019artiste catalan Aleix Plademunt. Il prend pour point de d\u00e9part le mot anglais matter<\/em>, soit en fran\u00e7ais mati\u00e8re<\/em>. D\u00e9riv\u00e9 de mater<\/em>, le mot latin pour m\u00e8re<\/em>, il d\u00e9signe toute substance ayant une existence physique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pour ce projet, Aleix Plademunt a collabor\u00e9 avec des \u00e9quipes scientifiques de plus de 15 pays, dont la Suisse, engag\u00e9es dans l\u2019\u00e9tude de la mati\u00e8re sous une multitude de formes. Aux crois\u00e9es du vivant et de l\u2019inerte, elles investiguent les particules constituant l\u2019univers, le temps long de la g\u00e9ologie, les civilisations disparues et leurs reliques, l\u2019anatomie humaine et ses reproductions robotiques ou artistiques, parmi bien d\u2019autres champs. La mati\u00e8re, constante, inerte et indiff\u00e9rente, rend la vie possible. L\u2019humain, en retour, la fa\u00e7onne et l\u2019\u00e9tudie sans rel\u00e2che, sans pourtant parvenir \u00e0 percer les myst\u00e8res fondamentaux de la vie. En associant des photographies issues de multiples contextes \u00e0 travers le monde, l\u2019artiste nous livre un r\u00e9cit singulier et complexe de la condition humaine, \u00e0 travers les prismes de l\u2019histoire, de la biologie, de la physique ou encore de la g\u00e9ographie. Il t\u00e9moigne de l\u2019ing\u00e9niosit\u00e9 humaine, de sa curiosit\u00e9 et de sa cr\u00e9ativit\u00e9 comme de sa violence et de sa soif de pouvoir et de contr\u00f4le. Ses photographies tissent le documentaire et l\u2019intime, formant une s\u00e9quence narrative personnelle et politique, incisive et d\u2019une beaut\u00e9 aigu\u00eb. \u00a0\u00a0 L\u2019exposition du Centre de la photographie Gen\u00e8ve pr\u00e9sente une s\u00e9lection de 154 images et vid\u00e9os du projet, issues d\u2019un corpus de plus de 600 photographies, dans une sc\u00e9nographie con\u00e7ue pour ses espaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Exhibition views by Annik Wetter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2023 | Centre de la photographie Gen\u00e8ve Developed over almost a decade, Matter is the most ambitious work to date by Catalan artist Aleix Plademunt. It takes as its starting point the word matter, which stems from mater, the Latin word for mother. Matter refers to any substance with a physical existence. For this project, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":182,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1450","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danaepanchaud.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danaepanchaud.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danaepanchaud.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danaepanchaud.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danaepanchaud.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1450"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/danaepanchaud.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1464,"href":"https:\/\/danaepanchaud.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1450\/revisions\/1464"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danaepanchaud.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danaepanchaud.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}