French Season: ‘What Shadow?’ (Ce Que Dit La Bouche d'Ombre)
An exhibition presenting the work of contemporary French, Jersey and Guernsey based artists & a programme of special events
Image: By Nolwenn Brod
Thursday 11 July to Sunday 28 July 2024, Tuesday to Sunday 10.30am to 6pm
ArtHouse Jersey at Capital House, 8 Church Street St Helier
Image: Artists Louise London, Estelle Chaigne and Yasmin Atkinson. Photograph by Marcel Lenormand
Our French Season launches at ArtHouse Jersey at Capital House with exhibition What Shadow? (Ce Que Dit la Bouche d’Ombre) opening on Thursday 11 July to Sunday 28 July 2024. This show will present the work of contemporary French, Jersey and Guernsey based artists, working individually and through collaborative dialogue, creating works across different media including photography, video, sound installation and ceramics. Each work explores with a delicately perceived sensitivity and feeling, layerings of form, place and human figure, unearthing a profound relationship to the landscapes, inheritances and twilight presences of Jersey, Guernsey and Brittany.
The exhibition features works by artists Yasmin Atkinson (Guernsey), Veronique Besnard and Naomi West (France / Jersey), Nolwenn Brod (France), Estelle Chaigne (France) and Louise London (Jersey). It is produced with the support of Guernsey Arts, Les Ateliers du Vent (Rennes) and the Government of Jersey who supported a residency programme with ArtHouse Jersey in 2023-4. The exhibition successfully launched in Rennes on Friday 31 May and will then make its way over to Jersey before heading on to Guernsey.
Alongside the exhibition, ArtHouse Jersey is hosting a series of events from leading contemporary French artists as part of the French Season 2024. More information about these events can be found on ArtHouse Jersey’s website and tickets can be booked via Eventbrite.
Générateur de Tensions & Ventilator
Thursday 18 July 2024, 7pm, ArtHouse Jersey HQ at Greve de Lecq Barracks. Tickets: £10 + booking fee via Eventbrite. This performance by Paris-based sound artist and composer Camille Lacroix is inspired from research around a text by Marcel Duchamp, which explores the idea of recycling body movements through forms of sonic energy.
Jérôme Bel by Jérôme Bel
Friday 19 and Saturday 20 July 2024, 7:30pm, ArtHouse Jersey HQ at Greve de Lecq Barracks. Tickets: £18 + booking fee via Eventbrite (limited pay what you can). This is the English language premiere of “Jérôme Bel”, a new work by the seminal French choreographer Jérôme Bel, whose playful, visceral and conceptual dance works since the 1990s have shaped and had one of the most significant influences on contemporary dance in Europe over the past thirty years. This work, first performed in 2021, and presented for two nights in the intimate studio of Greve de Lecq Barracks is performed by and in collaboration with Terry O’Connor originally from Jersey, and co-founder of one of the world’s most celebrated experimental contemporary theatre groups, Forced Entertainment.
Burn to Shine by Patricia Allio
Thursday 25 July 2024, 7pm, Jersey Museum. Tickets: £10 + booking fee via Eventbrite. Patricia Allio visited Jersey in 2023 to present her solo theatre performance "Self-Portrait to My Grandmother" which explored her relationship to her Breton speaking grandmother. This new film work is an extraordinary "docu-fiction" which makes a dream-like journey through history, queerness and Breton language and culture based from the mystical history of the village of Saint-Jean-du-Doigt in Finistère.
