‘Paysages sous tensions’ – TC McCormack ‘Most Objects Go Unseen’ in group exhibition at Espace d’art La Brava in Thônes

Paysages Sous Tensions
Espace d’art La Brava, Thônes, France

Saturday 03 April 2021 – Saturday 29 May 2021

L’exposition s’empare des questions soulevées par les relations qu’entretiennent espaces naturels et activités humaines. Les artistes présentés envisagent le paysage comme sujet de réflexion poétique, esthétique et politique : en posant un regard à la fois fasciné, réflexif, attentif et critique, ils explorent les nouveaux enjeux de la représentation du paysage et notamment celui de la montagne. Phénomènes physiques, énergies mécaniques, les oeuvres expérimentent la mise en relation d’éléments, de champs de connaissance, de situations, de trajectoires. Des forces dynamiques sont à l’oeuvre, elles inquiètent, préoccupent, résistent.
Des lignes et des fils dessinent un parcours dans l’exposition et invitent le spectateur à se
mettre en mouvement.

The new group exhibition Paysages sous tensions, at Espace d’art La Brava brings together new commissions and existing works by a group of international artists, to address our complex, mediated and often contested relationship with the natural world.

The show is curated by Pauline Boucharlat, at Espace d’art La Brava, Thônes, France.

FEATURED ARTISTS:

FRANCIS ALŸS, ISMAÏL BAHRI, THOMAS BENARD, DAMIEN GUGGENHEIM, TC MCCORMACK, TAUS MAKHACHEVA, ANTOINE PEREZ, ROMAN SIGNER and RICHARD T. WALKER

CURATED BY:

PAULINE BOUCHARLAT

Featured in the exhibition is TC McCormack‘s film La Plupart des Objets Restent Invisibles (Most Objects Go Unseen).

La Plupart des Objets Restent Invisibles (2020, 22 minutes) exists somewhere between an ontographic study and an immersive travelogue. Featuring a mobilised species of objects – in order of appearance: Boundary object, Privileged object, Discrete object, Quasi-object, Unknowable object, Exhausted object and Proto object. The film follows their non-linear migratory patterns and atomised relationships, on a journey through diverse terrains and climates.

 

This network of relations displays an illusion of proximity, while each of the subjects exhibits distinctive interpretations of a shared ritual. The film denies direct access to the objects, the viewer is left to speculate if they are human or non-human… a species of bird, a group of economic migrants or an affiliation of abstract intentions.

At the centre of this film is a voice that narrates and reflects on the objects progress, speaking to the traces amidst their interweaving trails. The film features animated scenes, alongside sequences of still imagery, satellite photography, urban and rural film footage, and diagrams.

For more information on the exhibition and the artworks please see the Centre national des arts plastique website and imagespassages.

Stills above from La Plupart des Objets Restent Invisibles by TC McCormack.

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TC McCormack is a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University and researcher at the Art, Design & Media Research Centre. Follow on Instagram @tcolmccormack and find out more about his work here.