Running waters – Residency crossed by the Bièvre river
The Bièvre River flows into the Seine in Paris, at the Austerlitz train station, after a 35 km journey through the departments of Yvelines, Essonne, Hauts-de-Seine, Val-de-Marne and Paris, where it used to flow through the 13th and 5th arrondissements. Its sources are in La Minière ponds, near Guyancourt. Once open to the air, it has suffered the fate of many small urban rivers: polluted, channelled and dispersed. It has been completely covered in Paris since 1912 and in the suburbs from Antony to Gentilly since the 1950s, with the exception of short sections recently brought to light. In Arcueil, The Bièvre flows under Pauline Perplexe, a former family house run by artists and converted into an independent place of artistic production and exhibition, and continues underground, indiscernible, near Bétonsalon, in the 13th arrondissement.
Taking as a pretext and source of inspiration the path of this underground water that links Pauline Perplexe to Bétonsalon, we will take advantage of this invisible link to correspond, send messages in bottles, pursue artistic research and share it. Through monthly meetings combining visits, walks, workshops, surveys of texts and paths, this project will be an opportunity to share our practices and know-hows. Each session will include an invitation to a researcher, artist or activist, who will bring another approach to the issues addressed.
Running waters receives the support of the Ministry of Culture – DRAC Ile-de-France within the framework of the deployment of SODAVI-F, Schéma d’Orientation pour les Arts Visuels en Ile-de-France.
Guided tour of the Manufacture des Gobelins, followed by a walk in the 13th arrondissement.
With : Mathilde Belouali, Marie Bette, Yoann Dumel-Vaillot.
Meditations on the Bièvre with Yoann Dumel-Vaillot.
Pauline Perplexe, 90 rue de la Convention, 93400 Arcueil.
In collaboration with the association the 38th Marche de la Bièvre.
Elementary school Émile Mousseau, 44 avenue Jean Jaurès, 78350 Jouy-en-Josas.
With the artist, and the curator Franck Balland.
Exhibition at Pauline Perplexe (90 rue de la Convention, 93400 Arcueil), by appointment from June 11 to July 10 2022: paulineperplexe@gmail.com
Pauline Perplexe, 76-78 rue de la Convention, 93400 Arcueil
Gaming session with The Mycological Twist
With artists Marie Bette, Romain Grateau and Sarah Holveck.
Pauline Perplexe, 90 rue de la Convention, 93400 Arcueil.
Samedi 19 et dimanche 20 novembre, puis samedi 26 et dimanche 27 novembre, de 14h à 18h.
Accompanied by artists Charlotte Collin, Mathilde Rives and Sarah Holveck.
Pauline Perplexe, 90 rue de la Convention, 93400 Arcueil.
Performance and readings by Yasmine El Amri, Léa Rivière and Phoebe Hadjimarkos-Clarke.
Lecture by Yoann Dumel-Vaillot.