Atlantis Lumière invites Marseille based artist Wilfrid Almendra for his first solo exhibition in the city, curated by Cédric Fauq.
Wilfrid Almendra is a French-Portuguese sculptor whose work draws upon architectural influences found in the shapes and surfaces around us. He brings together diverse, found, and repurposed materials to create works that reference the practices of hobbyists and which in turn question social class divisions, labor and alternative economies, and/or attests to notions of desire and invention within the cracks of normative systems.
In addition, this exhibition is accompanied by a public program conceived by The Winter Office, an experimental artistic group consisting of artists, curators, architects, and social scientists from Denmark and beyond. Their artworks focus on ecological and spatial justice issues occurring in our cities.
A proposition by Atlantis Lumière and The Winter Office.
Partners: Le Talus and Adelaïde.
At the invitation of Adelaide, this exhibition is accompanied by Nature As Infrastructure, a virtual month-long programme conceived by The Winter Office, on view from the 14th of November to the 12th of December 2020 on bruisemagazine.com.
The Winter Office is an experimental artistic group consisting of artists, curators, architects, and social scientists from Denmark and beyond. By examining how the concept of Nature as infrastructure is treated through artistic strategies, their programme considers how we can re-establish a new connection to nature, rethink a renewal of society, and inspire the design of future public spaces by reintroducing nature into cities. The initiative presents talks, films, artworks and projects from The Winter Office and as well as from invited other artists and thinkers.
Participating Artists / Architects / Poets: Raul Baltazar, Filip Vest, Madeleine Andersson, Ingrid Book & Carina Hedén, Oscar Salguero, Gitte Juul, Wilfrid Almendra, Hugo Hopping, Frans Jacobi & Gitte Sætre, Anja Franke, Elzélina Van Melle, The Living Unliving Surveillance Poet, Jeanne Betak, David Lau, Jeffrey C. Stewart et The Winter Office. In addition to other guest artists, architects, and social scientists.
Organized and curated by Hugo Hopping in close collaboration with Lise Grüner Bertelsen, Camilo Montoya and Johanna Ferrer Guldager of The Winter Office; and through the generous support of Wilfrid Almendra and Aurélia Defrance for Adélaïde and Bruise Magazine; and through an extended collaboration with Christopher Sand-Iversenand Katie Mcdougall of SixtyEight Art Institute; and Céline Kopp of Triangle France – Astérides; and as part of Manifesta 13 Les Parallèles du Sud.
Supported by Atlantis Lumière, Adelaide, Triangle France – Astérides, SixtyEight Art Institute, and The Danish Arts Foundation.
