Walking: a double exhibition on migratory realities

It can't be a man alone. There is too much dust. * Whether they are in Pentelic marble or in light, the processions move forward. They are called "displaced". Our media ceaselessly stir up their stories to enable us to understand the incomprehensible - thrown onto the roads or the sea, children, women and men are chased from their homes. To understand, you would have to be able to move yourself. We walk to the rhythm of songs, feet in the dust of the roads ...

This is the project of the double exposure Moving Beyond Borders et More sweetly play the dance hosted by Stimultania and the University of Strasbourg. Throughout this exhibition and the associated projections, it is not only a question of confronting this reality but of experiencing it. The rigorously opposed approaches do not endorse any cliché: one reflects the gazes of observers who fix the processions, the other sifts through the essence of a mythology. The light is the main actor of a thousand-year-old fable, where the characters gain in intensity, in emotion and in mystery what they lost in grieving torments. Poetry now admits that everything is only wandering and heartbreak.

It is natural, after 30 years of artistic and political challenges, that Stimultania and the University join forces and take part in the “Uprisings” **. This spring, you are therefore invited to travel with the universal diasporas, from one exhibition to another, from a conference to a screening, from a meeting to a workshop to, with us, try to understand the world as he will. We have read poetry for too long, we have admired mosaics for too long, there can be no giving up. ***

* For only procession, Laurent Gaudé, Actes Sud, 2012 / ** Uprisings, Georges Didi-Huberman, Jeu de Paume, 2016 / *** Hear our defeats, Laurent Gaudé, Actes Sud, 2016

Céline Duval, Director of Stimultania and Sylvain Diaz, Director of the University Service for Cultural Action at the University of Strasbourg

Curator: Céline Duval
Scenography: Étienne Andréys

More sweetly play the dance is presented until May 28, 2017. More sweetly play the dance, monumental installation 25 meters long, 7 video projectors and 4 megaphones, 2015.

Moving Beyond Borders is presented until April 30, 2017, and will continue its roaming at the Documentation Center on Human Migration in Dudelange -Luxembourg. Moving Beyond Borders, traveling exhibition by Migreurop, interactive and immersive scenography designed by the Étrange Miroir collective.

William Kentridge was born in 1955 in Johannesburg. The nicknamed “total artist” quickly gained international recognition for his unique ability to create bridges between the visual arts, cinema, music and opera. Marked by the segregationist context of apartheid, the visual artist develops a plural practice that questions the universal absurdity of destructive political regimes. His creations are presented in the most important museums and international institutions. He is represented by the Marian Goodman Gallery. Installation More sweetly play the dance was presented for the first time in 2015 at the EYE, Amsterdam cinema museum.

The Euro-African network Migreurop, composed of 46 associations and 53 activists and researchers based in 17 countries of the Middle East, Africa and Europe, aims to document and denounce the effects of European migration policies on the fundamental rights of migrants and, in particular, those who are checked and deprived of their liberty or are subject to surveillance measures. To do this, the network endeavors to collect and exchange information, conduct a shared analysis of these processes, create awareness-raising tools, promote joint actions and organize international meetings.