Ouvertures / Openings — Le Louvre — Exhibition — Slash Paris

The study of animal movement, an interest of choreographer and artist Simone Forti since the 60s, constitutes a pioneer avenue of research, finding in today’s choreographic creation important resonances and implications.

Jérôme Bel has created a work whose self-referential title declares the pre-determined relativity of all artistic gestures. The work undertakes an extreme reduction, based on the complete nudity of the performers and the stage and an absence of standard theatrical practice.

‘Illuminations’ explores a dialogue unique in its genre, between the pioneer research led by Simone Forti in the domain of ‘untaught’ movement and Charlemagne Palestine’s highly immersive musical investigations.

Establishing in the 70s innovative links between performance and video, Joan Jonas’ art develops unique temporal structures, which contrast time’s subjectivity and the different aspects of collective cultural conscience. Her strongly ritualistic actions are performed with her own body.