Reinventing Calais

The CPIF hosts an exhibition of works from the Fonds National d’Art Contemporain collection, commissioned as part of “Réinventer Calais”* (Reinventing Calais).

Curators : Pascal Beausse and Nathalie Giraudeau

 

This commission is part of the ongoing commitment of an association, Pôle d’Exploration des Ressources Urbaines (PEROU), because: “It involves paying attention to how we collectively see Calais, because it involves looking beyond what seems obvious to so many and finally telling the story of a town/world crushed under the weight of a form of base iconography that only shows the very worst, because it involves making way at last for this “invisible town”, a town made up of buildings, dreams, human relationships and businesses of all sorts, all of which contribute to making a place what it really is and finally because it involves making public a different political interpretation and realising, at last, that the New Jungle in Calais is a “tiers paysage” (third landscape).” (Sébastien Thiéry, PEROU coordinator)

Public opening : Saturday, October, 12 - 3 PM
Opening of the exhibition with the artists and curators
Free shuttle from Paris, by reservation

Public talk : Saturday, November, 23 - 3 PM
Panel discussion with the artists and curators
Free shuttle from Paris, by reservation

*Works commissioned by the Centre National des Arts Plastiques in collaboration with PEROU and in partnership with the Fondation de France and the PUCA.

Photo credit : Elisa Larvego, Zara devant la porte de la Belgium kitchen, zone nord de la jungle de Calais, 2016, FNAC 2017-0053 (8), réalisée dans le cadre d’une commande publique photographique du Centre national des arts plastiques (Cnap) et du Pôle d’Exploration des Ressources Urbaines (PEROU) intitulée « Réinventer Calais » en 2016, Cnap © Elisa Lavergo / Cnap

The exhibition is part of The Engagement, a national event organised by Diagonal network, in partnership with Centre national des arts plastiques, supported by the French Ministry of Culture and ADAGP, in the frame of Diagonal’s tenth birthday.