Révolte logique
Renée Levi, Rosalind Nashashibi
21.06.2013 - 20.07.2013, opening 21.06.2013
Avancer à reculons, eine Versuchsanordnung / U, 2013
Acrylic on linen
280 x 280 cm
unique
Avancer à reculons, eine Versuchsanordnung / A, 2013
Acrylic on linen
280 x 280 cm
unique
Carlo's vision, 2011
Color, sound (optical), 16 mm
12 min 14
ed 3 + 2
Exhibition view 'Révolte Logique', Marcelle Alix, Paris, 2013 / Photo: Aurélien Mole
Logical Revolt
The exhibition finds its inspiration in the unexpected connection between two words, "logical revolts" that Arthur Rimbaud imagined in his Illuminations and which was used in the mid-seventies by Jacques Rancière, Joan Borell, Geneviève Fraisse and Arlette Farge as a title for their journal, in the aftermath of Michel Foucault's thought. In The Logical Revolts, they aimed to concentrate on the discursive aspect of an articulation in between the working class and the different means which were used against it, rather than continuing the fight against an unalterable class antagonism. Rimbaud's bitter song, associated with questions pertaining to the writing of History, makes those two words ring as two distinct processes that blur speeches [...]
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