This image depicts a group of young people sitting together in a lush, verdant forest setting. The composition features a balance of warm and cool tones, with the vibrant green foliage contrasting with the casual attire of the individuals. The informal, relaxed posture of the group suggests a sense of camaraderie and connection within the natural environment. The artistic style suggests a documentary or candid approach, capturing a moment of social interaction and leisure in an outdoor setting. The context may imply a group of friends or peers engaging in a shared experience or activity within the tranquil forest surroundings. ...
Each film Lola Gonzàlez produces, makes the next one up. The complete set portrays an obsession, as dreams that'd never cease to return night after night, affecting day-time as well. The apparent lightness emerging from her first "buddy movies" has disappeared in favor of a desire that's more open to the world. Not unlike magical rituals, Lola Gonzàlez's films open on those young people facing outward, toward the landscape. Are they able to see a sign out there, they'll all read into in the same fashion? Each time, a deeply moving synchronicity sets in, creating a situation where communication channels through the bodies that brush by or voluntarily touch one another. ...
We founded Marcelle Alix in 2009 in Paris and settled in a characteristic, early 20th-century boutique in Belleville. The gallery is for us a creative space, where the dialog with artists is not only meant to selling artworks, but is also based on an equal relationship to creativity. We now represents thirteen artists and two duos. Our identity has been built with the support of the artists who opened our programme (Aurélien Froment, Louise Hervé & Clovis Maillet, Charlotte Moth, Ernesto Sartori, Marie Voignier) and those we introduced to the French art scene (Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz, Ian Kiaer, Donna Gottschalk). During these years, we have supported broad artistic careers (Laura Lamiel, Liz Magor and Mira Schor whose work we represent exclusively in Europe) and accompanied the development of new perspectives in sculpture (Gyan Panchal, Jean-Charles de Quillacq) in video (Lola Gonzàlez), and in drawing (Armineh Negahdari). Our gallery has been a pioneer in defining a space for queer art in France : in addition to showing her work within the artist duo Boudry/Lorenz since 2011, we have directed the translation into French of Renate Lorenz's 2012 seminal book, « Queer Art » in 2018. Since 2019, we have exhibited photographs by Donna Gottschalk documenting the lives of women living with women who were involved in the lesbian movement in the United States in the 1970s. In 2023 we organised an exhibition for the Utopi.e award—first award in France for Lgbtqi+ art—for which we have invited Paris galleries Air de Paris and Sultana as fellow participants. We insist on the central role of a gallery in the ecosystem of art as a place to make idiosyncratic positions visible and weave a critical narrative around the most contemporary visual forms. ...
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