ART

NOBODY IS A STRANGER EXHIBITION AT NO NAME

By Ariane MINARD

At No Name, Paris, you may have the great opportunity to discover « Nobody is a stranger » an exhibition curated by Armelle Leturcq, from may 23 to july 17, 2024.

The initial reflection of « Nobody is a stranger » was France and the French scene. Which does not mean ‘‘French artist’’. But in order to go beyond the questions of nationality, integrate artists who have a link with France, by thinking of the French scene, which is an apart scene, include the ‘‘foreigners to themselves’’, those excluded from the art market, the internal nomads, those who are not in established networks, artists’ of artists.

You can notably find the work of the Franco-Austrian choreographer, visual artist and director Gisèle Vienne and her Portrait n°13 questioning the boundaries of bodily expression, or L’Archange Saint-Michel by Oxana Shashko, the Ukrainian feminist activist, great painter of a revolutionary generation.

The history of the avant-gardes obviously demonstrates this, France and Paris have always been a place of refuge for artists mistreated in their country: the exiled, the refugees, the stateless, the uprooted, the misunderstood.

The expression Nobody is a Stranger was used by the surrealists. There are no foreigners in art since art is a common language, a common utopia.

Stranger also evokes weirdness. Art is this moment in suspension, where the viewer, without necessarily wondering what the artist meant, just wants to feel and be open to a new idiom. A language without words. And without explanations, without instructions.

‘‘The history of the French scene makes me think of these uncompromising artists, without consensus, whose work and perseverance do not fail, despite the difficulty of integrating into an international art market, even if a shooting window seems to open.’’ – Armelle Leturcq

The artists :

ADEL ABDESSEMED, ALEJANDRA LAVIADA, BOJAN SARCEVIC, BROGNON-ROLLIN, CHRISTODOULOS PANAYIOTOU, FRANK PERRIN, GIANNI MOTTI, GISELE VIENNE, IVAN ARGOTE, JACQUELINE DE JONG, JEAN-LUC BLANC, JEAN-LUC VERNA, JIMMIE DURHAM, MICHEL BLAZY, MICHEL JOURNIAC, STEPHANIE BROSSARD, MYRIAM MIHINDOU, NIL YALTER, OXANA SHACHKO, SOFIA SALAZAR ROSALES, STURTEVANT, TARIK KISWANSON

By appointment : leo@marshallfineart.com

Credits photography : Thomas Lannes

From left to right : MYRIAM MIHINDOU, Fleurs de Peau, 1999 ; SOFIA SALAZAR ROSALES, What does the city hide in a hug?, 2023 ; IVAN ARGOTE, Bondage, Joseph Gallieni and I, 2021