Barbara Bloom, Gaëlle Boucand, Peggy Buth, Parastou Forouhar, Andrea Fraser, Andrew Grassie, Norma Jeane, Laura Lamiel, Riccardo Previdi, Kiki Smith, Julien Tiberi

After Perspective and Scène, Écran is the final installment in the Un plan simple cycle presented by the curatorial collective Le Bureau/ at La Maison populaire. While Scène offered a collective experience based on the theatrical model, Écran favors a more individualized approach to the works. The screen, a surface for projection and desire historically linked to cinema, is also considered in its everyday use as an interface for information and communication, where a situation is activated that is both private, often in a domestic setting, and connected to the outside, to public space.

Whether in cinema, computers, or television, the screen is likened to a window of endless possibilities into which viewers project themselves. This experience can be public or domestic, suggesting a modulation between the quest for interiority or exteriority, between a flat surface and a window open to the world. The screen is also what stands between, an intermediary between the individual and the collective, but also what acts as a screen, a medium. The hanging of Un plan simple 3/3 (Écran) accentuates this ambiguous and dual aspect of the relationship with the screen by staging the works in such a way that they are not immediately revealed to the viewer entering the art center's exhibition space. Indeed, the scenography offers a global but partial view of the exhibition, which the visitor is then free to enter.

In this exhibition, the screen is primarily considered as an interface with the visitor and as one of the symbolic forms of modern image construction. Thus, each of the works presented in the exhibition offers a different way of understanding our relationship with the screen, and beyond it. Some works, which appear decorative at first glance, reveal themselves to be vehicles for a political message, such as the pieces by Iranian artist Parastou Forouhar, the photographs and sculptures by Kiki Smith, and the torn carpets by Peggy Buth. Others question the materiality and technical promises generated by the screen, such as Riccardo Previdi's kinetic panels, Gaëlle Boucand's rear-projection installations, and those of Laura Lamiel. Andrew Grassie, meanwhile, offers hyperrealistic paintings that use paint as a documentary interface. The installations by Barbara Bloom and Norma Jeane reveal the physical traces that a work can leave on the viewer, while Andrea Fraser plays with the interfaces that are now ubiquitous in museums. Finally, Un plan simple 3/3 (Écran) is an opportunity to discover a piece by Julien Tiberi produced especially for the occasion.

Le Bureau/ : Guillaume Baudin, Marc Bembekoff, Garance Chabert, Aurélien Mole, Julie Pagnier, Céline Poulin, Émilie Villez