MARIANNE MISPELAËRE

LANGUAGES AS MIGRATORY OBJECTS

within the framework of The New Patrons program

PATRONS
teachers of literature and languages, students, language scientist

ARTS OUTREACH – PRODUCTION
thankyouforcoming, member of the "Société Nouveaux commanditaires Arts & Sciences"

THE ART WORK CAN BE ACTIVATED AND INTERPRETED BY YOU. Please contact Thankyouforcoming, the patrons or the artist.

PROJECT DEFINITION PHASE
constitution of the patrons' group, writing of the commission, choice of the artist with the mediator June 2019 - February 2020

RESEARCH PHASE
experimental workshops and conversations, realizations of art works March 2020 - March 2021

REALIZATION PHASE
realization of the protocol art piece in response to the commission, realization of the film September 2021 - April 2022

SITE
Marseilles – Bouches-du-Rhône
collège Vieux Port, lycée Victor Hugo, lycée professionnel René Caillié

SUPPORTS AND PARTNERS
A project supported by the Fondation de France, the Fondation Daniel et Nina Carasso, the Fondation des Artistes, in partnership with the FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur and the Académie d’Aix-Marseilles.
With the support of the Academician Mrs. Barbara Cassin and the Academic Inspector Mrs. Odile Aubert.

Les “Nouveaux commanditaires” (The New Patrons) is a project that the Fondation de France has been delivering since the 1990s. People wrestling with issues of society and land development are given the chance to share their concerns with contemporary artists by commissioning works. The originality of the scheme lies in the intersection of three groups of participants who are supported by the public and private partners: artists, ordinary people who commission works, and cultural mediators approved by the Fondation de France.Read more.

BEING A TRANSLATED BEING
2021
protocol
series of drawings
21x29,7cm each
edible oils on paper

As soon as it is drawn in oil, the portrait/self-portrait evolves by unfolding itself by capillarity on the sheet of paper, transforming any realism of the drawing into an almost or totally abstract form. The experience suggests the impossibility of freezing what cannot be frozen: identity is in constant construction (in perpetual translation); languages, like beings, are alive. Through metaphor and metamorphosis, the experience opens a reflection on the presentation of oneself to the world.