Frac Ile de France

Camera Ballet, Mathilde Denize

From September 25th to January 11th

22 rue des Alouettes (19th arrondissement)

The Frac Île-de-France will be hosting Mathilde Denize’s first solo exhibition at an institution in the Paris region, for which she will be taking over Le Plateau. Denize’s artistic practice combines painting and sculpture — which she considers inseparable — with installation, video and performance. She has developed a unique body of work in which forms are born of assembly, transformation and recycling. Her paintings, which often resemble garments or costumes, are both pictorial surfaces and portable objects, existing on the border between painting, volume, and scenography.

She cuts up her old canvases and attaches fragments of found materials and discarded objects to them. Her cutting and editing techniques are reminiscent of filmmaking. This personal archaeology results in hybrid works: costumes without bodies that are somewhere between armour and camouflage; floating silhouettes; and suspended figures. Paradoxically, the absence of the suggested bodies reinforces their presence. The elusive figures blend into the surrounding colour like a halo, creating a special aura around them.

Double trouble, Exhibition of the 1st edition of Art Emergence

From September 17th to November 2nd

43 rue de la Commune de Paris (Romainville)

Presented simultaneously in the Réserves of the Frac Île-de-France and in the Chaufferie of the Fondation Fiminco, the exhibition for the inaugural edition of Art Émergence brings together the graduation projects of 42 artists and designers graduating in 2024 from all of France’s public art and design schools, with one graduate from each school.

The aim of the exhibition is twofold: to present each artist’s diploma project and unique world, and to provide a panorama of the aesthetic and political concerns that are currently running through the creative output of art schools.