Itinéraires Fantômes Exhibition:
June 21, 2024 – January 19, 2025
CAPC Musée d’art Contemporain de Bordeaux
www.capc-bordeaux.fr/en/agenda/expositions/phantom-itineraries
Itinéraires Fantômes developed out of multi-part conversation between Alexandra Grant and the French writer and theorist Hélène Cixous with the curators Ana Iwataki and Marion Vasseur Raluy. The title Itinéraires Fantômes comes from Cixous, a way to think about the parallel maps of memory and experience being overlayed on the world. The twin projects worked as follows: Grant and Cixous would undertake an oracle deck of cards, inspired by Cixous’s text Mdeilmm (2022), that would encompass all the artists that Cixous had worked with or written about, as well as images from her life and text. Many cards would also draw from Grant’s oeuvre. And Iwataki and Vasseur Raluy would take the concepts of the deck and develop an exhibition, in parallel, at the CAPC Musée d’art Contemporain de Bordeaux.
In the CAPC press release, the curators write that Cixous’s “recent book, Mdeilmm (October 2022), considers Victor Hugo’s experience of automatic writing while channeling the spirit of William Shakespeare. From this interest and intuition around ghosts shared by Cixous and Grant and the curators came the invitation to fourteen artists to join these strange itineraries. The artists in the exhibition are not simply interested in ghosts as subjects but convoke them via their practices and varying methods.”
The artists in Itinéraires Fantômes include Guillaume Baronnet, Julie Beaufils, Alexandra Grant, Victor Hugo, Hanna Hur, Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai, Michael Kennedy Costa, Minne Kersten, Joshua Leon, Lydia Ourahmane, Bracha L. Ettinger, Rafael Moreno, Elsa Prudent, and Shanta Rao.
Itinéraires Fantômes at the CAPC Musée d’art Contemporain de Bordeaux opens June 21, 2024 and runs through January 19, 2025.
