Caméléon Club
Exhibition
Caméléon Club
Past: February 2 → March 30, 2019
As part of his residency at La Galerie, poet and artist Tarek Lakhrissi is presenting for his first solo exhibition a fictional, performative ensemble freely inspired by science fiction. Taking works of imaginative speculation as his starting point, he calls for a future marked by emancipation and interaction between physical bodies and bodies of knowledge. In a setting transformed into an allegorical spacecraft, he conjures up a poetically minoritarian, queer frame of reference in which artworks and invitations to participate shape the contours of a utopia-to-come.
Lakhrissi’s practice derives from and feeds into language and its performative dimension: what it does and does not allow. In his poetry, he addresses language — its self-evidence and its limitations — via iterative resort to English, Arabic and French. Sometimes accomplished, sometimes faltering, these ventures into translation and transition aim to put pressure on language through subjective, marginal experience constantly reperspectivised and reworked by its different voicings.
Poet, queer and Arab, Tarek Lakhrissi has his roots in a language at once cultivated, inherited, assimilated, familiar, foreign and vulnerable; and whose repetition, as in a learning process, also exhausts it. His narratives are the bed in which endless amorous frolicking is played out between speech’s power of command and its liberatory re-articulation; in which the invitees are in turn slang, popular culture and theoretical allusion.
Guest curator: Thomas Conchou
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Opening Friday, February 1, 2019 6 PM → 9 PM
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Entretien-lecture : Tarek Lakhrissi et Kaoutar Harchi
Meeting
Saturday, February 16, 2019 at 4:30 PM
Kaoutar Harchi est sociologue (Cerlis), spécialisée dans le domaine des arts et de la culture, auteure de l’ouvrage « Je n’ai qu’une langue, ce n’est pas la mienne. Des écrivains à l’épreuve » (Fayard, 2016). Elle est par ailleurs écrivaine, auteure, notamment, du roman « A l’origine notre père obscur » (Actes Sud, 2014).…
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Atelier d’écriture et de mise en scène avec Claire Finch et Karima El Kharraze autour de L’Apocalypse Arabe d’Etel Adnan
Meeting
Saturday, March 9, 2019 2 PM → 7 PM
Dans son Apocalypse Arabe, Etel Adnan donne une métaphysique du sentiment, dans laquelle la guerre s’agence avec la poésie, la géographie et les dessins, afin d’exprimer l’indicible.
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Performance : 32 octobre 2018 / Ghita Skali
Performance
Saturday, March 9, 2019 7 PM → 8 PM
Issus d’une longue période de recherches et d’investigations, les projets de Ghita Skali ont pour impulsion initiale des enquêtes minutieuses sur des anecdotes apparues dans les médias et plus tard occultées ou effacées, ainsi que des faits et intrigues réels.
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Soirée de clôture
Event
Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 6 PM
L’exposition « Caméléon Club » de Tarek Lakhrissi, en résidence à La Galerie depuis septembre 2018, s’achève le samedi 30 mars. L’occasion de revenir visiter l’exposition et d’assister à la performance de Surūr Darabi, au concert d’Helma et au DJ Set de Ndayé Kouagou.
Opening hours
Wednesday – Saturday, 2 PM – 6 PM
Saturday, 2 PM – 7 PM
Fermeture les jours fériés
Admission fee
Free entrance
The artist
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Tarek Lakhrissi