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Pîle International - SIB 🇬🇧 Visit to the Lyon Contemporary Art Biennale

Par VALERIE HAMEL, publiĂ© le vendredi 27 novembre 2020 21:17 - Mis Ă  jour le lundi 21 dĂ©cembre 2020 14:09
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Visit to the Biennale Lyon – former Fagor Factory

Some of the students’ remarks about the exhibition

The exhibition was surprising and innovative. The artwork called ‘Saboteurs’ by Mire Lee was repellant but it makes us think about climate change and pollution. 

There were many different types of art which made it diverse. The one I thought was the most satisfying was the one by Minouk Chin for the simplicity in its structure but it also made you feel admiration for the colours.

My favourite work of art is a sort of catastrophe with a bed inside. It makes me feel as if time has stopped at the moment of an explosion. It also shows the tranquillity of the moment before the rubble fell on the bed.

The artwork Motorcycle on snow: I found it captivating; it reflects loneliness and routine.

The art piece I liked the most is Prometheus Delivered by Thomas Feuerstein. The aesthetics remind one of the alien movies, with a futuristic look and the dark misshapen drawings. The cynical commentary on society ‘eating’ itself also reminds me of H. P. Lovecraft.

Orange river: The atmosphere was very particular. It felt like we were in the middle of the form that the river created and we could not escape. The corpse of someone who had drowned really hit me hard. The water was hot and there was a ball floating on it. For me, it represented an eternal rebeginning.

The exhibition was really different and out of the box. My favourite art piece was the uplifted kind of living area. Made out of tubes, with lights, candles and really cute décor, even a bed, it reminded me of a particular theme: industrialization with the pipes and factory elements in the air.

I liked the fact that each art piece was unique, had its proper purpose and I could imagine stories and go inside the artist’s mind.

Not any piece of art really caught my attention separately but altogether I found it very interesting. We had different points of view on the art, we could walk around it, get closer. Everywhere there was something to interpret something to admire. All of them told a different story, an opinion, that’s what I liked most, the diversity.

One of the artists filmed a pen. There is no action, just subtitles written in very small font at the bottom of the video. The subtitles tell the story of 
.The title of the artwork is ‘Sketching the weight of idleness and guiltiness.’