Festival d’Automne à Paris — Event — Slash Paris

A South African artist of Lithuanian origin now living in France, Steven Cohen questions displacement in a piece which revisits his past Johannesburg performances.

Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla present two new films: Apotomē and 3. The performance Hope Hippo, presented at the Venice Biennale of 2005, is also reactivated in the Grande Galerie de l’Evolution at the Museum national d’Histoire naturelle.

History has been at the core of Hiroshi Sugimoto’s work for the past twenty years. In a series of photographs and a video installation, Sugimoto investigates the origins of Zen Buddhism and its implications in Japanese cultures over time. He creates a mental landscape, composed of objects and ancient artworks selected.

Two artists in residence at MAC/VAL, Mary Sibande stages her “clone” dressed as a housemaid and dreaming of another life in photographs and performances, while Mikhael Subotzky’s art renews the codes of humanist photography.

Opposing the profusion of fashion collections, Eternity Dress follows the design of one dress — made on Tilda Swinton’s body — from the measuring up to the creation of the pattern, from the cut to the sewing together. Inspired by a 1950s method found in the museum’s collections, the dress resonates with the history of fashion and initiates an archaeology of the craft.