Dubai World Expo
From October 1, 2021 to March 31, 2022, Art Explora was chosen to represent culture in the French Pavilion at the Dubai World Expo. The foundation participated in the Exhibition around 2 major axes: a permanent exhibition within the Pavilion's Planet Arts and an artistic program outside the walls throughout the Exhibition.
Art Explora in the French Pavilion
The Art Explora space in the Pavillon France illustrates the Foundation's missions, which include access to culture for as many people as possible and support for contemporary creation.
Art Explora presents the Museum Ship project to the public for the first time, along with a unique digital and interactive installation by artist Neïl Beloufa.
Neïl Beloufa
There is no I in island
Producedin collaboration with Bad Manner's
2021
French artist Neil Beloufa and Bad Manner's have developed a novel technology for this interactive installation. The viewer is filmed, and his or her image is broadcast live in the middle of a volume world map on which the catamaran sails. Through his or her movements, the viewer interacts with the continents and oceans, which shift, distort and metamorphose, never returning to their original form. It's up to the spectator to try and respond to the laments of this planet, destructured by his arrival.
The museum boat
To present the boat-museum project, the foundation is exhibiting a 3.6m-long, 5m-high model positioned in a basin, and a 17m-long, 3m-high immersive panoramic film explaining the concept.
France Day on October 2, 2021
Cecilia Bengolea and François Chaignaud
GrimeLove
Incollaboration with Ballet national de Marseille
2021
To mark France Day, choreographers Cecilia Bengolea and François Chaignaud's GrimeLove performance is presented to the World Expo audience three times.
Cecilia Bengolea and François Chaignaud join forces with Ballet de Marseille and Japanese ballerina Erika Miyauchi, to create a work inspired by their previous collaborations, Dublove (2013), Altered Natives (2012) and DFS (2017). Fascinated by the rhythmic complexity of Jamaican Dancehall, Cecilia Bengolea has been interested in this musical and choreographic culture born in the 1960s for several years. Through this work, François Chaignaud and Cecilia Bengolea affirm their passion for the richness of choreographic and artistic practices from a wide variety of backgrounds. From the experience of these heterogeneous languages, they propose a specific, speculative, abstract and humorous style. In so doing, they are pursuing a long-term research project based on an anthropological and formal curiosity for choreographic and musical forms of expression. This performance is an ode to the diverse sources from which it draws its inspiration, while at the same time emancipating itself from them to create unexpected combinations and forms, liberated from the references on which they feed.
Cecilia Bengolea
Cecilia Bengolea was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1979. She now lives and works in France. Cecilia Bengolea uses a variety of means of expression, including live performance, video and sculpture. For her, dance is a tool and a means of eliciting deep empathy and emotional exchange. The artist develops a wide range of artistic activities in which she conceives movement, dance and performance as animated sculptures, and in which she is both the object and subject of her own work.
Cecilia Bengolea and François Chaignaud have been working together since 2005. Their works, Pâquerette (2005-2008) and Sylphides (2009), have won several awards, including Award de la Critique de Paris in 2010 and Award du jeune artiste at the Gwangju Biennale in 2014. They have also created choreographies together for their dance company, as well as for Ballet de Lyon (2013), Ballet de Lorraine (2014) and Pina Bausch Tanztheater Wuppertal.
François Chaignaud
François Chaignaud was born in Rennes, France, in 1983. He began dancing at the age of six and studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Danse in Paris. From He's One that Goes to Sea for Nothing but to Make him sick (2004) to Думи мої (2013), he creates performances in which dance and song intertwine, in the most diverse venues, with multiple inspirations. Cecilia Bengolea and François Chaignaud have been collaborating since 2005. Their works, Pâquerette (2005-2008) and Sylphides (2009), have won several awards, including Award de la Critique de Paris in 2010 and Award du jeune artiste at the Gwangju Biennale in 2014. They have also created choreographies together for their dance company, as well as for Ballet de Lyon (2013), Ballet de Lorraine (2014) and Pina Bausch Tanztheater Wuppertal.
Other residents
Exhibition of works by French artists during Cities Week
To coincide with the World Expo's Cities theme week, Art Explora is presenting an exhibition of works by internationally renowned French artists, exploring the place of ecosystems in the urban environment. These works are presented simultaneously in several urban spaces, in Dubai as well as in Paris, in order to share the World Expo's artistic program with as many people as possible. The public will be able to discover these works in Dubai in front of the French Pavilion and on Jumeirah Road, as well as in Paris on the platforms of the Palais-Royal - Musée du Louvre metro station.
Featured artists:
The olfactory work of Morgan Courtois
Art Explora and IFF present an olfactory work by artist Morgan Courtois, entitled Hybris, created in collaboration with perfumer Céline Barel. The work will be distributed to the public in the French Pavilion and on the Paris metro during the World Expo Cities theme week.
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Morgan Courtois
Hybris
in collaboration with perfumer Céline Barel
2021
Hybris is a flash of iridescence illuminating a hydrocarbon night. An electrifying aldehyde overload in the head. The appearance of a mutant rose in the humidity of a bitumen slick.
Partners
The French Institute of the United Arab Emirates is the cooperation and cultural action department of the French Embassy. Its mission is to promote French creativity, thought and language, and to foster cultural, artistic, educational, academic and scientific exchanges between France and the United Arab Emirates. In this capacity, he is the correspondent for cooperation in the Emirates for the Regional Councillors in their sector (Health, Justice, Nuclear, Agriculture...). He monitors the cultural, educational and health aspects of the Franco-Emir strategic dialogue. Its activities therefore cover a vast field. It organizes events for the visual arts, performing arts, cinema, debates...
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