Faced with What Slips Away:
Starting Again and Offering for the First Time
In the conservation-restoration workshops of the École d'Art of Avignon, damaged, lost works with stolen visibility are being treated. The questions on their constantly tormented life are revealed here with particular care given to the traces and their loss. So the restoration of the work is like a mirror held out to creation, and vice-versa. Gestures, organic elements, dust, paint, films, skins, performances: all the creation techniques and materials are concerned. The itinerary proposed to the public is like a journey through appearances, a stroll through a world of vacillations, of scenes and transfers between objects, bodies and glances, all peopled by absences, stories and signs based on which the references will gradually be constituted, the narratives developed. Two daily visits of the restoration workshops are planned during the Festival, and will be conducted by the school's students and, occasionally, by professionals from the art world, who will present their own vision on the subject.
Jean-Marc Ferrari, Director of the École supérieure d'Art of Avignon
Distribution
with the experts Laurent Busine, Benoît Dagron, Jean de Loisy, Laurent Derobert avec l'étudiante Christine Bavière, Stéphanie Élarbi, Jean-Marc Ferrari, Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux, Yves Le Fur, Boyan Manchev, Didier Morin
and the students guides Estelle Delesalle, Nathalie Schleif
coordination École supérieure d'Art d'Avignon