artist residency
EVENTS AROUND THE EXHIBITION
Public meeting with Mathieu Farcy
An exhibition carried by Stimultania photography center in Strasbourg.
In connection with the exhibition by Arno Brignon, the duo PLY (Mathieu Farcy and Perrine Le Querrec) and Marine Lanier This silence is rustling with words presented at the Filature from January 25 to March 23, 2025.
Exhibition supported by the DRAC Grand Est, the Grand Est Region and the City of Strasbourg.
This editorial could cling to the words of Peter Handke, chosen by Mathieu Farcy to enter the exhibition as one takes off one's shoes before visiting a loved one. This editorial could cling to Nova's recommendations because the weather is favorable to precepts. We would then be in the vestibule, in the front of the prints and drawings, in the front of the doing.
Nova would say: It is up to you to look carefully. Look and paint. First horizontal lines, then vertical lines and when your lines on the paper are imbued with life, you will move on to the vanquished and the victorious, to the severed toes, to the leaning ones, to the skins and the shadows. Get into the habit of holding a plumb line in your hand so you can judge the inclination of things.* Change the world with your art, concentrate, do not regret anything, attention that is not joyful is worthless. Think of the circle with which everything begins, of the verdigris, of the coal. Listen and close your eyes.
From there will come the movement, because the work induces movement, renewal.
Once the threshold is crossed, we would notice the movement. Because Mathieu Farcy's images lead to movement. Each work created has produced a new memory, a new desire. The characters, women, men or animals, have changed their trajectory. The very thought of the works, their materiality then their sudden, imposing, verticality have awakened their tremors. They walk with great strides.
I have never heard an artist use the word joy in this way.
Celine Duval
97. Reproduction of a nude or something else from nature, Leonardo da Vinci's treatise on painting, published by Jean de Bonnot, 1977.
"But now you're going to tell me what I have to do.
Play the game. Threaten the work even more. Don't be the main character. Seek confrontation. But don't have intentions. Avoid ulterior motives. Keep quiet. Be gentle and strong. Be smart, intervene and despise victory. Don't observe, don't examine, but stay ready for signs, vigilant. Be shaken. Show your eyes, draw others into what is deep, take care of space and consider everyone in their image. Only decide enthusiastically. Fail with tranquility. Above all, have time and make detours. Let yourself be distracted. Take a leave, so to speak. Don't ignore the voice of any tree, any water. Enter where you want and grant yourself the sun. Forget your family, give strength to strangers, look into details, go where there is no one, don't care about the drama of destiny, disdain misfortune, soothe conflicts with your laughter. Put yourself in your colors, be in your right, and let the sound of the leaves become sweet. Go through the villages, I follow you."
Peter Handke, Through the Villages. Dramatic poem translated from German by Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt, Gallimard, 1983.
Show your eyes presents four projects that have taken shape in the last five years.
« Holy Wolves was created during an invitation in the Saint Leu district of the city of Amiens and of love and rage was created in Givors as part of an invitation made by Stimultania. These two projects aim to produce a collective work based on the legends and mythologies of those who have worked with me. They share the same need, to come together. They are part of listening to those who live in neglected territories.
The following two projects, asylums et Animal alliances, shown here at the sketch stage, are the ricochets of previous works. They extend the need to do together by trying to outwit language, starting with gesture. asylums is a joint art project designed with exiled people. The aim here is to create together refuges, real or imagined, mental, symbolic, active spaces. Animal alliances are a set of experiences of nomadic creations, with animals in their territories, as well as with those who live animal-becomings. We develop a mutual attention, creating the conditions of a thick presence.
The attempts presented here all share the same roots: fierce convictions
What can be created with the Other.
That our meetings are works of art.
That every person carries mythologies within them.
That the images produced by listening are amulets loaded with meaning.
That showing them may be a need.
That in our troubled times, mutual attention is a joyful path.
Matthew Farcy
Mathieu Farcy, born in 1985, lives in Marvejols. A photographer after having been a special needs educator, Mathieu Farcy places the question of "social disqualification" at the center of his work. His interest in speech and the place of others in society has constantly crossed his photographic practice. His various works are part of a reflection around what he calls "horizontal documentaries", in which he involves the participants and considers them as just as responsible for the creation as he is. [Circulation(s) festival of young European photography, 2019]
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