Les Mains Invisibles is the first soloshow of Lucas Vidal presented at SISSI club. From kouros to azulejos, the artist draw his inspiration from traditional and archaic forms, and experiments with sculpture by fire. Burned madeleines, cooking oil, melted candies become the new material to create. Thus, his pieces are built in layers as cooking stages and he reveals throughout them his reflexion on labor economics. Lucas Vidal graduated from Villa Arson in 2018. He lives and works in Marseilles.
SPLIT WINDOW is a series of events and exhibitions scheduled throughout the biennal around an authentic dialogue between Athens and Marseilles. By making the Mediterranean Sea a new axis of European identity, an area of contiguity, the project focuses on the issues of North / South duality inherent to the positioning of SISSI, while opening a horizontal space of exchange between East and West. A rare symbolic power emanates from Athens and Marseille. Ancient cities, marked by their history, they anchor their identity and prestige in their antique roots. Cradle of European civilisation for one, oldest French city for the other, they have in common the fact that they are both large trading and transit ports.
They are today, by their spirit of resistance and their « outsiders » image in the contemporary world, real experimental plateforms for the future. Oracular, predictive, even pre-apocalyptic cities, they invite us to think about both the collapse of Western societies and the outreach of marginalised populations.
Opening the 15th of October from 18.00 to 22.00.
Visits possible all the week on reservation +33(0)677844377 or l.vidal@gmail.com.
Curated by Elise Poitevin and Anne Vimeux (SISSI).
A proposal by SISSI.
