TIME FOR REVOLUTION
TIME FOR REVOLUTION
TIME FOR REVOLUTION
As a spectator who can’t take any more of the news—each story worse than the next,
As an activist tired of seeing that nothing can be resolved by talking to institutions,
As a human being fed up with sterile communications that bring no action for those affected,
As a social being who, despite herself, belongs to capitalist society, feeling powerless, as if her voice— even when shouting at demonstrations— is never heard...
It’s as if the body must become the battleground for my struggles, because a body—dead or alive—seems to say more than voices or words that sink into oblivion.
With my own body, I want to shout my indignation at a humanity that learns nothing from its past mistakes. We are stuck in a perpetual cycle, as our old friend Plato might say, and it’s time to break this circle.
I’ve been waiting for the Messiah, but now that they’re clearly not coming, it’s up to us to come together and fight for an end to the desperate agony of a humanism that no longer resonates beyond borders.
If the words and images shared across all our fabulous social networks don’t make the elites—who clearly have the power to resolve poverty, social, and medical injustices—react, then let’s take up arms, WE ARTISTS, and burn all these arid, endless talks.
Without artists to tell the story, the world will remain a barren wasteland, where only aimless, detached capitalism will grow, serving merely to exchange a currency that doesn't actually exist if we stop using it.
The only real currency that exists is our exchange—from being to being, from idea to idea, from image to image.
That’s what history will remember.
!! Happy burning year of 2025 !!
Performance written by Sarah Konté
Directing and Shooting by Meredith Marlay
Collective La Marge
Espace Aimé Césaire - Paris Genevilliers
October 7th - November 19th 2022
2 videos installations
Winner of the Hatvany Prize awarded in 2019 by the Fondation de France and the Beaux
Arts de Paris, La Marge Collective presents its first exhibition "Prélude" in the space Aimé Césaire of Gennevilliers.
This exhibition wants to be like a restitution, a presentation of artistic forms but forming a globality. Result of numerous meetings, exchanges, sharing, artistic which were woven during the studies of the members of the collective well before the creation of this last.
With this will to present their creation by making body around this collective, essential questions in connection with our society are raised during this exhibition.
"Prélude" proposes a journey around the works of the artists of La Marge Collective, whose practices are versatile an multidisciplinary practices. Their creations are all impregnated with a new and attentive eye, raising eminently contemporary eminently contemporary questions.
Through the 17 works in the exhibition the artists raise questions whose universality finds in all of them a particular and central echo.
Born between 1988 and 1999, they are part of a generation which was marked by phenomen of global scope. Their work takes indeed seize the numerous societal questions (culture, ecology, representation...).
Their works testify of an interest for the questions of spatiality and of territory, in terms of mobility, of architecture and intimate, natural or domestic space.
Beyond a simple exhibition, it is to a real visual and communicative experience that the La Marge Collective.
La Marge is a cultural and artistic association born in May 2020 at the initiative of young visual artists, architects and curators wishing to meet, to set up activities, projects and to invest locally in their countries and their cities of origin in periphery of Paris.
It works to rehabilitate spaces in transition such as disused buildings or wasteland spaces by the temporary occupation of young artists by organizing cultural and artistic events, promoting the autonomy, the professionalization and the development of young creators and to animate places of experimentation whether it be to accompany individual and/or projects in a purely associative in a purely associative spirit.
This period is marked by a certain number of a certain number of social movements which participated in the explosion of different awarenesses on a national and national and world scales.
Rich in this present, La Marge is invested with a will to animate the territory, to become multi-purpose cultural, educational and of social utility.
La Marge wants to be a space of production, connection, diffusion, exhibition, experimentation and emergence for artistic and political thought.
Finally, it also has the objective to provide artists with tools and resources for their creations.