Xrivista

A collaborative artist's magazine for the independent art scene.

14/04/2020

X= Playgrounds / N.3
March 2018

WELCOME TO THE PLAYGROUND.

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@ Brussels, Belgium

15/03/2020

X= Playgrounds / N.3
March 2018

Playgrounds opens its doors for the end-residency exhibition on 16th September 2017. On that morning there is a lot of movement inside Le MAGA: as we try to finish a first draft of X=Playgrounds to showcase during the opening, Catarina, Ines, Lorraine, Maud and Simon are working together to prepare the exhibition. Some of them will present samples of the work they created for the magazine, others some independent pieces they realized during the residency, such as stages of the research that led them to their finalized works.

None of the projects loses visibility. Instead, each one of them takes on a new role within the space, and becomes a fundamental part of a collective narration. The perimeters are being broken, the space is fluid, and Le MAGA is transformed one last time.

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@ Brussels

10/03/2020

on X= Playgrounds / N.3
March 2018

Simon spends a lot of time manipulating the materials, testing their texture and shape. He observes them closely and at a distance.
In his practice, the different possible ways of experiencing an artwork are the focus of a constant research. The physical distance between the work and the spectator, the changes in light, the possibility to alter the shapes, are all the parameters that define Simon’s creations within the space, and its evolution. Simon experience of the Playground is a full-body encounter; he explores it physically as he tests it through sounds and shapes.

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@ Brussels

01/03/2020

Maud Gourdon on X= Playgrounds / N.3
March 2018

Coming from a background in illustration, Maud preserves a taste for clear lines, the popular codes of communication - forms that are easy to get a hold of. The artist integrates them with deep, layered theoretical investigations into her production. It is only once she found a story and that her research eld is well de ned, that Maud can start to ponder the technical and artistic choices that the realization of the idea require.
Some paper sheets with marbled textures are added to the textual and visual mosaic that surround Maud’s small desk. This is a motive and material she found on the floor of Le MAGA as also in several places in Brussels. This brought her to wonder about the origins of the marbled pattern in the city and - once again - the possible stories, imagined or not, that are linked to it.

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@ Brussels, Belgium

28/01/2020

on X= Playgrounds / N.3
March 2018

She lives and works in Belgium but she dreams of Los Angeles - With a background in drawing, developed during her Fine Arts studies, Ines moves from paper to the space, insisting on trying to break the limits imposed by the sheets what ever the format or consistence. The artist’s drawings are composed of vivid colours, flat shapes and fillings made with different materials cut-outs, kitchen rags, figures that she rapidly sketches with fast, fluent lines. Her subjects are always places with an aura of mystery, cryptic and colourful; in the middle of which, infinite variations on the palm tree find their place since several years.

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@ Brussels, Belgium

23/01/2020

Catarina Real on X= Playgrounds / N.3
March 2018

Hands are faster than thoughts - Initially a painter and having studied Art Theory and Aesthetics, Catarina focuses on an artistic approach to the research on language and communication systems. A few months before the start of the residency, and especially for Playgrounds, the artist created a Tinder profile, entering the world of virtual relationships.
Tinder is a dating app. Using it only requires two gestures: swipe left, swipe right, yes, no, match...or not.
Her project has as a starting point the idea that Catarina works on the app, investigating its rules of interaction, its linguistic patterns, the ever-repeating sentences and words: Tinder’s virtual space as a sort of conversational game and therefore a communication system.

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@ Brussels, Belgium

19/01/2020

Lorraine Druon on X= Playgrounds / N.3
March 2018

Breaking the frame of the picture -
In her first project proposal, Lorraine’s desire has been to look for the playground outside Le MAGA, particularly through encounters with the inhabitants of the Saint-Gilles neighbourhood where the residence is taking place.
Her projects develop during long walks around neighbourhoods and disparate places, in which the artist shoots and creates her own archive of ideas and impressions.
A curiosity for what is outside of the picture, all that a photo cannot capture, fosters her research. The project puts into a perspective the position that is adopted by an artist and an observer in relation to the human territory narrated.

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@ Brussels, Belgium

15/01/2020

Chères et chers amis, membres, soutiens actifs de Mains d’Oeuvres, de ses salariés, de ses artistes-résidents..

Le tribunal de Bobigny a prononcé son délibéré aujourd’hui mercredi 15 janvier : il demande à la ville de Saint-Ouen la réintégration de Mains d’Oeuvres dans son bâtiment historique dans les 72 heures!!!!

Nous avons toujours fait confiance à la justice dans le différend qui nous oppose depuis plusieurs années à la ville. Elle s’est exprimée aujourd’hui.

Cette décision est une victoire pour la culture, pour celles et ceux qui la font vivre au quotidien.

Nous vous donnons toutes et tous rendez-vous ce soir à 18 heures devant Mains d’Oeuvres

29/12/2019

X= Playgrounds / N.3
March 2018

, Lorraine Druon, Maud Gourdon, Simon Loiseau and Catarina Real are the 5 artists who took part to a 10-days residency at Le MAGA, in Brussels.

29/12/2019

X= Playgrounds / N.3
March 2018

Playgrounds opens its doors for the end-residency exhibition on 16th September 2017.
The five artists chose to scatter their works throughout the space, in a continuous, diverse display, so as for the visit will start with a work by Simon, moving on to Ines’, then going back to Simon, Maud, Lorraine, Ines again, Catarina, and so on, going back and forth through different styles, different techniques. The meaning of the exhibition, and its exploration, lies in the whole of the artworks, within a geography that was defined collectively, and which originated from the playful relationship between each work and the others, and between them and the observer.

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