Flatland. Abstractions narratives

Exhibition catalogue published by Mudam Luxembourg, Mrac Occitanie/Pyrénées-Méditerranée, and Edition Cantz, 2017

Texts by Marianne Derrien, Sarah Ihler-Meyer, Vincent Pécoil, and Klaus Speidel

Artists: Cyril Aboucaya, Wilfrid Almendra, Sylvain Azam, Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann, Francis Baudevin, Becky Beasley, Rana Begum, Louidgi Beltrame, Karina Bisch, Jessica Boubetra, Simon Boudvin, Simon Collet, Guy de Cointet, Philippe Decrauzat, Marie-Michelle Deschamps, Angela Detanico/Rafael Lain, Thea Djordjadze, Hoël Duret, Sylvie Fanchon, Liam Gillick, Mark Hagen, Peter Halley, Christian Hidaka, Jugnet+Clairet, Sonia Kacem, Tarik Kiswanson, Harald Klingelhöller, Vera Kox, Pierre Labat, Camille et Marie Lancelin, Fabio Mauri, John McCracken, Sarah Morris, Reinhard Mucha, Matt Mullican, Damián Navarro, Julien Nédélec, Camila Oliveira Fairclough, Bruno Peinado, Manfred Pernice, Mai-Thu Perret, Julien Prévieux, Bojan Šarčević, Eva Taulois, Blair Thurman, John Tremblay, Pierre Vadi, Elsa Werth, Raphaël Zarka

French/English

15 x 30 cm, 224 p.

“Borrowing its title from a 1884 book by Edwin A. Abbott, an allegoric narrative against dogmatism whose protagonists are geometric forms, this exhibition in two parts brings togehter artists from the 1960s to this day, taking inspiration from the abstract vocabularies that came to be used in the twentieth century to infiltrate them with narratives. Their practices touch upon various artistic, social and cultural events, bringing back the conventional readings of abstraction and initiating one of the most paradoxical returns to narrative in contemporary art.” (Mudam éditions)

I translated various texts from French to English and did some additional proofreading.