In a few words
In the summer of 2020, La Vague de Saint-Paul will be showcasing the exhibition Welcome to a Land of Needs and Desires, which brings together artists Romain Gandolphe (1989, France), Karim Ghelloussi (1977, France) and Hazel Ann Watling (1984, Great Britain).
Sharing a pronounced fondness for the ironic, the outrageous and the undermining of hierarchies, these artistes are engaged in pondering their personal relationship to the history of art and the context of dissemination and perception of images and works. They invest a broad range of media and disciplines (sculpture, painting, collage, installation, performance), producing an unprecedented ensemble of artistic proposals.
In the summer of 2020, La Vague de Saint-Paul will be showcasing the exhibition Welcome to a Land of Needs and Desires, which brings together artists Romain Gandolphe (1989, France), Karim Ghelloussi (1977, France) and Hazel Ann Watling (1984, Great Britain). These artistes are engaged in pondering their personal relationship to the history of art and the context of dissemination and perception of images and works. Invited to create new, even site-specific 1 pieces to echo the architecture and the function of the exhibition venue, encompassing all at once inspiration, copy, pastiche, reference, homage, souvenir, oblivion or displacement, the works displayed at La Vague gaze backwards in order to better address the present and look to the future. This fertile reinvention occurs through a vast array of media and disciplines (sculpture, painting, collage, installation, performance) by artists who share a pronounced fondness for the ironic, the outrageous and the undermining of hierarchies.
