The Lyon Biennial brings together and presents artists from all over the world who work in the field of narrative, experimenting with the modalities and mechanisms of storytelling. The exhibition focuses on the inventiveness of contemporary artists in telling new stories in a different way, dismantling mainstream narrative codes and ready-made plots.
Since the creation of the Biennial in 1991, Thierry Raspail, Director of the Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon and creator of La Biennale, has invited curators to reflect on a keyword. This was chosen for three successive editions. Drawn from current events, frequently used and with uncertain semantic amplitudes, this word calls for both artistic and societal interpretation. First there was Histoire in 1991, then Global in 1997, Temporalité in 2003 and finally, from 2009 to 2013: Transmission. The term is no more a subject than a title. It is simply the starting point for a dialogue from which we are building three platforms: first, an Exhibition, because, whatever the way in which the works are associated, their location, their mode of selection or their absence, it is a question of conceiving an exhibition.
For this 12th edition, Thierry Raspail has chosen the words “entre-temps…brusquement et ensuite” Through the choice of this title (or these titles), which emphasizes the processes of mise-en- récit, the aim is to affirm the need for an exhibition to beat to the rhythm of its subject: in this case, a renewed attention to form, to form as a producer of meaning, and to the idea that in a narrative, it is the way of telling, of making a narrative, the invention of a new narrative form that always prevails.
The Lyon Biennial from September 12, 2013 to January 05, 2013
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