With Linga Acácio, Phoenix Atala, Jimmy Beauquesne, Aurélien Potier, Jeanne Jacob, Tony Colombe. K, Rafael Moreno, Rafael RG, Myriam Ziehli, ana•mona servo / Les Éditions PanPan CulCul and their guests.

The initial definition of the Friche is deliberately minimal, allowing it to take on a wide variety of formats depending on the projects, opportunities, inspirations and needs identified by the institution. It’s a time-space set aside at the heart of the exhibition spaces, which reconnects with the multiple functions of art and goes beyond the traditional uses and missions of an institution. It’s a space where artists are free to work, to come and go, to invite other professionals, and which will be open to the public on an ad hoc basis for special events to preserve time for individual or collective work.

The specificity of this first Friche is to be particularly editorialized around the exhibition project Hors de la nuit des normes (out of the enormous boredom) which will take place in the same space and will be its extension. This exhibition, curated by Valentina D’Avenia and Clément Raveu, will run from October 19, 2023 to January 7, 2024.

For there to be life, things have to contaminate and transform themselves through contact with one another. With this in mind, La Friche becomes the ideal testing ground for a variety of mutually enriching yet complementary practices. In the same way, it inspires and feeds the institution’s reflections, in a logic of attention and consideration for each person’s own vulnerabilities. This collective movement begins with simple questions: how can we take care of our bodies and our networks of affection? How can we work not just on love, but also with it? How do we translate non-standard desires and romanticisms? What genealogies can be written through the prism of situated gazes?

Resolutely dissonant, this second instalment will bring together artists from the past and present from La Friche, archives and works of art and delightful encounters, in a spirit of irreverence and wit, commitment and solidarity. From contingent love to romantic friendship, from trans-pedigree and queer culture to transnational approaches, from methods introduced by LGBTQIA+ ancestralities to contemporary adelphity, these sensitive and subversive insights into the normativity of relationships lead us to reconsider the histories that have eluded us, and thus act on the present.