The artist, filmmaker and researcher reflects on her approach to computational capitalism and the new modes of subjectivation it produces. In her films, she immerses herself in digital communities. Her first documentary film, La mécanique des fluides (The Mechanics of Fluids), is an investigation that takes as its starting point a suicide note posted by an incel (an involuntary celibate) on the Reddit platform entitled "America is responsible for my death". The investigation takes the form of a virtual drift across the internet in search of his digital traces.
Alternative educational spaces: from utopia to institutionalisation.
Beaux-Arts de Paris is delighted to participate in the sixth edition of LABO_DEMO, an initiative that aims to promote emerging and as yet unidentified artistic talents in order to highlight both the distinctive features of Belgian and French art school training programs and their interconnection at a time when artistic careers are becoming increasingly international.
In partnership with PhotoSaintGermain, Beaux-Arts de Paris and École nationale supérieure de la photographie in Arles are joining forces to organize an exhibition entitled Paradis artificiels (Artificial Paradises), presented in various spaces at Beaux-Arts de Paris.
A look back at the biography of a storyteller
On the occasion of the Un Week-End à l'Est festival, which this year honors the Romanian art scene, Cristian Mungiu, patron of this 9th edition, discusses the making of his book Une vie roumaine (A Romanian Life), in which he questions his relationship with truth and reminds us that storytelling remains an act of resistance. In conversation with Arnaud Laporte, journalist and producer at France Culture.
Technological wanderings
The quest for immortality, cryogenics, personal development, resource depletion, pyropictomania (or the pleasure derived from images of energy dissipation)... From the American West to the Atlantic coast, against a backdrop of climate catastrophe, we meet the authors of two books devoted to the technological turning point we are currently experiencing. How do these writings, connected to the visual arts and imbued with displacement, capture this turning point?
Beaux-Arts de Paris is delighted to welcome Harry Nuriev and the Sultana Gallery (Paris) for Art Basel Paris.
Vimala Pons talks with Clément Cogitore, studio professor at Beaux-Arts de Paris.
To mark the publication of their monograph Monochrome by Beaux-Arts de Paris Editions, artist duo The Bells Angels are taking over the Chapelle des Petits-Augustins.
For a critical reading of cartels
This event is organized in partnership with the research program “(D)écrire les œuvres, (re)penser les cartels” (Writing Works, (Re)thinking Labels), led by Anne Dressen (ENS Ulm – SACRe – PSL) and Yaël Kreplak (University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, HiCSA, Delphine Lévy Chair).
