Exhibition
Mélanie Matranga. 反复 [FANFU]
21 Oct 2015 – 10 Jan 2016
Regular hours
- Wednesday
- 12:00 – 22:00
- Thursday
- 12:00 – 23:59
- Friday
- 12:00 – 22:00
- Saturday
- 12:00 – 22:00
- Sunday
- 12:00 – 22:00
- Monday
- 12:00 – 22:00
Address
- 13 avenue du Président Wilson
- Paris
Île-de-France - 75 116
- France
Travel Information
- routes 32, 42, 63, 72, 80, 92
- line 9 / Iéna and Alma Marceau stations
- line C / Pont de l’Alma station
Ever loyal to its mission to promote young French artistic creation, Palais de Tokyo is presenting the first significant solo show by French artist Mélanie Matranga.
About
Her exhibition articulates several environments, several moments, through an ambitious set of works and architectural elements: two large mezzanines, a smoking room made in silicone, paper lights and loudspeakers, photographic prints and drawings that cover several walls. Mélanie Matranga combines signs that reflect upon interiority with elements linked to social attitudes and habits. Together, they make up places where the singular is expressed by the common, and where intimateness is uncovered, exposed. They are places to be lonely with others.
“By working on clichés on youth, their representation and their supposedly passive narcissism, Mélanie Matranga plays with the visitor’s attention and humour; this way she creates holes in the systems of representations we take for granted.” (Benjamin Thorel and Thomas Boutoux, curators)
The title of the show is in Mandarin, 反复, pronounced [fanfu] – and means, “again and again.” Intentionally elusive, it participates in the creation of a particular atmosphere, of a state of uncertainty; it then echoes the characters in a short film of the same name by Mélanie Matranga, which is presented in the exhibition.
A monographic book published by Palais de Tokyo is accompanying this show.