Aron Barbier, Bahachiel, 2024. Courtesy of the artist.
Aron Barbier, Liberté à Paris [Freedom in Paris], 2024. Courtesy of the artist.
Aron Barbier, Bahachiel, 2024. Courtesy of the artist.
Aron Barbier, Liberté à Paris [Freedom in Paris], 2024. Courtesy of the artist.
Amphitheatre 5C – Halle aux farines, Université Paris Cité, starting at Bétonsalon
Conference-performance by Aron Barbier
As part of the Pride Festival held by the city halls of the 13th and 14th districts
Inspired by the figure of the angel, inherited from popular religions and cultures, and featured in the Klonaris/Thomadaki exhibition at Bétonsalon, Aron Barbier is interested in his lived (but also, unlived) experience of being trans, and wanting to find his place among instituted knowledge. Through voice and image, he calls on angels to help him with a seemingly impossible mission: to express a reality that slips away, and that sounds empty to a world that doesn’t resonate with it. Can angels, who seem to communicate without sign or language, help us to speak?
Aron Barbier
Aron Barbier was born in 1988 and lives in Paris. His multidisciplinary practice is irrigated by the forms of cinema. Film plays an important role, and editing, staging and scripting are explored. Each piece is part of a process, designed to bring out the bodies and voices of human subjects without fixing them, whether it’s his own “I” (Devenir féministe, 2022, Le Cœur solide, 2021), a portrait (Les Yeux bleus cheveux noirs, 2018), an invitation to other artists (Nuuu* for *Duuu, 2022-present, The World Is Beautiful As It Is, 2018) or the participants in a collective performance (Horizontal, 2017).
His work has been presented at the CAPC, the Institut d’art contemporain Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, the Palais de Tokyo, the Centre International de poésie Marseille, the FIFIB – Bordeaux International Film Festival and the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin. In collaboration with the cultural service of Université Paris Cité, as part of the Pride Festival held by the city halls of the 13th and 14th districts.
